ABSTRACT
The austerity crisis has posed significant challenges to the conception of the humanistic subject as self-governing, independent, and liberal; to put this point another way, austerity has forced us to question that representation of the humanistic subject’s ability to live himself, to live his own life free and autonomously, under his own decisions, to be sovereign. Our organic vulnerability, understood as a constitutive precariousness due to our interdependent sociality, bases our primary dependence on other lives and cultural contexts at all times. For those who are affected, their body has become a precarious body.
