Domination, time and historical eventuality. Foucault’s and Postone’s critiques of capitalism

Abstract

In the following article I´ll try to carry out a comparative analysis between the theory of capitalism that Moishe Postone offers us, and the Foucauldian considerations around power and domination based on time, always with the backdrop of subjectivity as a place of embodiment and resistance of them. To do this, I´ll briefly present some of the key points of the heterodox reading that both authors make of Marx. Once these analytical frameworks have been defined, I´ll try to delve into the divergent issues between them. I´m going to reveal how the sensitive differences around the conception of work-time as a social link lead both authors to understand the position of the subject regarding domination in an opposite way. Later I´ll force the considerations that Postone makes around the concept of structuring practice with the Foucauldian device. The efforts for the critical reconstruction of the emerging moments of modern capitalism, as well as the analysis of domination based on the objectification of social practices and the capture of time in modernity, generate necessary spaces for dialogue in the task of updating the ontology criticism of ourselves