BODY - VICTIM - TRAUMA: BIOPOLITICAL HORIZON

The article is devoted to understanding cultural trauma as a biopolitical concept. Biopolitics is presented as a system of certain strategies in relation to human corporeality, the basis of which is the economic power of capital. The key concepts conceptually included in the semantic field of biopolitics - bare life, homo sacer, state of exception and others - are considered. Cultural trauma is comprehended on the basis of understanding the specificity of a victim in contemporary culture. The discourse of trauma transforms sacredness into grief, guilt and resentment. Accordingly, the victim unites the collective body not through purification, but through involvement in violence as a traumatic event. The sacrifice is conceptualised as a biopolitical tool, contradictorily suggestive of humanist pathos and biopolitical exploitation.