The Power of Impotence

Abstract

From the proposal on power of impotence by Giorgio Agamben, this article reflects on the possibilities of resistance in the interstices of power of biological societies. In this way, the notion of resistance is critized as a set of activities of confrontation or struggle against an external force conceived as a threat; alternatively, it reflects on a sui generis mode of resistance as inoperativity, such as “power-of-no”, which while escaping the neutralizing and absorbing effect of power devices, opens up new uses and fair, no manipulated actions, in the interstices of the legal-political-police structure.