| Sumario: | The main objective of this article is to present and articulate the categories of affirmative biopolitics and instituting thought in Roberto Esposito's philosophy. We intend to support the thesis that biopolitics, once related to thought, can give rise to ethical practices and policies to protect and expand the power of life. As biopolitics asserts human power and thought expands this symbolic imaginary, the institution of social praxis and singular and collective political actions becomes possible. To support and present these ideas, the article is organized in two moments: (i) initially, we seek to reconstruct Esposito's reflection on biopolitics and on the construction of the immune paradigm. We will assume as background the dialogue between the Italian thinker and Michel Foucault, highlighting the contrasts and tensions that led Esposito to what he understood as the hermeneutic key that completes the explanation of biopolitics; (ii) then, we aim to show how the “black box of biopolitics” can shift the life-affirming immune pendulum and, together with the power of thought, can institute social imaginaries and praxis.
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