The article aims to analyze some relations between literary creation, living labor and processes of subjectivity. Living labor is characterized as a creation process that involves the power to feel, think and invent. The literary creation is analyzed as a critical reference of alienated forms of institutions to live. We propose the concepts of dead labor, alienated subjectivity, lively and poetic ethics of subjectivity. Based on these propositions, we seek to examine the poetic of subjectivity as an action that produces and is produced by living labor, and also its ethical-political resonances in the process of building the politically qualified forms of living.
literary creation; subjectivity; living labor; dead labor