Abstract
Starting from the Foucaultian analyses regarding the immanence relation in which capitalism, biopower and medicalization of life are constituted, we analyse the neoliberal modulations of power-knowledge relations and the production of a self-entrepreneur’s subject, who works for a great performance on all fields of existence. We are interested in problematizing the repercussions of this economic logic on the health field as it engenders foresightful subjectivities. In this context, these must follow the prescriptions of the biomedicine, epidemiology and health promotion apparatus to ensure longevity and vitality, as well as its investment in the construction of old age as a Universal, whose experience fluctuates between frailty/active aging. Our reflections are made in an ethnographic foray into the “Ala dos Cabelos Brancos”, the old guard of GRES Imperio Serrano, where we map the modes of production of self and reality that set the samba world as a reference universe and establish unique meanings for health and old age.
Keywords:
Biopower; Medicalization; Aging; Samba