Lucrécia D´Alessio Ferrara 324 Following the considerations cited by Esposito, we can observe that biopolitics obey paradigms that, in addition to be- ing political, also follow reflections from biological science. At the crossroads of this type of reflection, it is considered that immunization refers to domains that are, to a certain extent, for- eign to the horizon of the new media and, above all, to the me- diatization that results from them. Taken in a biological sense, the concept of immunization refers to the maintenance of what is healthy for the body and the spirit and, in this line of reason- ing, considers Darwin’s contribution to the proposition of the selection of biological species. Since Darwin, we can observe that the relationship be- tween the concept of immunization and biology takes on dimensions that associate it with the formation and maintenance of a population that, to be protected against health problems, must have the wisdom to know how to govern. The health of the body and spirit is related to politics, and, in all three dimensions, it is understood that knowing how to govern means taking care so that it is possible to wield and exercise power. Once again, knowledge and power are intertwined, and this reminiscence is not occasional or of no interest to this work. In this reminis- cence, two elements are involved that characterize the historical environment that marked the modern state and developed, not without conflicts, in modernity. The modern era spanned the 19th century until the first two decades of the 20th century and evolved into moder- nity, which encompasses the second decade of the 20th century to the present day. This temporal circuit included the definitive categories that characterize subjectivation and the undeniable manifestations of governance, such as totalitarianism and the exercise of control and power. If the 19th century was marked by trends such as rationalism, individualism, and universalism, the second half of the 20th century and the first decades of the 21st century are being marked by subjectivation that involves other dimensions of the subject. If in the first case, we have a subject understood as a patient of media discipline and control, in the second, we have the subject trying to understand the media that reaches him, the way it reaches him, and his role in relation to it, gradually becoming the master of his will that mediatizes itself.
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