ABSTRACT

The study of borders is also the study of ontology and the metaphor of the political philosophical event. Foucault distinguishes between two moments of biopolitics: the first, which refers precisely to ‘this sudden emergence of the naturalness of species within the political artifice of a power relation’ and the second, in which he not only affirms but also studies ‘liberalism as the general framework of biopolitics’. This sovereign exception confirms the third autoimmune practice following the vicious cycle of repression not only for the others, but even against the ideals of the European Union. The possibility of the pharmakon as the poison that enables nation-states to weaponize foreign policy and border policy against human mobility, and as the antidote for the surveillance of the state of law and the democracy to-come, project a new hegemonic geopolitical network that has destabilized the ideals of Western modernity.