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The Black Protests in Poland: An Example of an Anti-pastoral Revolution
Szymon Wróbel
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5313/2024.02.001
University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
Michel Foucault in Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1977-1978 argues, that there has never been such a thing as an anti-pastoral revolution in Western societies. Yes, we have had revolutions against the disciplinary apparatus and legal devices of power (schools, hospitals, prisons) and we have had examples of revolutions against the economic foundations of social inequality, but there has never been a genuine revolution against pastoral power as a power relating to the conduct of individuals (but also entire social groups) and their disposition to “voluntary submission” to the will of external authorities. In my paper, I would like to reflect on this thesis, and taking it quite seriously, to look for examples of such revolutions. One of them is a women’s strike in Poland during the power of the conservative government of “Law and Justice”. Mainly referring to the texts of Silvia Federici and Paul Preciado, I will want to reflect on contemporary practices of reclaiming the body in contemporary capitalism. I will defend the thesis that regaining control over sexuality and reproduction means changing the material conditions of life and modern reproductive technologies.
black protest, morning-after pill, primitive accumulation, procreation refusal, resistance, voluntary submission, women’s reproductive strike
Szymon Wróbel. (2024). The Black Protests in Poland: An Example of an Anti-pastoral Revolution. Philosophy Study, Mar.-Apr. 2024, Vol. 14, No. 2, 53-62.
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