This article argues that the indefinite detention and torture of prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp and the intentional destabilization of Palestinian civilian life in the Israeli occupied Palestinian territories are indicative of the emergence of a new postmodern form of power. Coining the term homo dolorosus – the man who is available to be made to suffer – this article seeks to understand this emergent politics of suffering through a historicized reading of Foucault’s typology of power, informed by the work of Giorgio Agamben. It is argued that, just as discipline was the dark inverse of the modern utopian Enlightenment project of universal democratic inclusion, the politics of suffering is the dark inverse of the postmodern biopolitical project of security. Using the work of Mikkel Joronen, Jasbir Puar and Lauren Wilcox as signposts, this article argues that homo dolorosus is produced by power’s encounter with a population that it perceives or represents as simultaneously risky and dependent. Moreover, it is suggested that homo dolorosus may be the manifestation of a project that aims to do away with freely-deciding subjectivity while keeping the human body alive.

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从同性恋者到同性恋者：生物力量和苦难的政治

本文认为，关塔那摩湾拘留营中囚犯的无限期拘留和酷刑以及以色列被占领的巴勒斯坦领土上巴勒斯坦平民生活的故意动荡表明，新的后现代权力形式正在出现。本文将“同质白领”一词（即可以受苦的人）的用语归纳起来，旨在通过对乔治·阿甘本的著作进行的对福柯权力类型的历史性解读来理解这种新兴的苦难政治。有人认为，正如纪律是普世民主包容的现代乌托邦启蒙运动计划的黑暗反面一样，苦难政治也是后现代安全生物政治计划的黑暗反面。利用Mikkel Joronen的作品，Jasbir Puar和Lauren Wilcox是路标，这篇文章认为同性恋者是由于权力与它认为或同时具有风险和依赖性的人口相遇而产生的。此外，有人提出，同种美元可能是一个旨在在保持人体存活的同时消除自由决定性主观性的计划的体现。