Il corpo intimo dell'agency

Subjectivity, forms of subjectivation, domination, forms of resistance andother analogous concepts are at the heart of a vibrant debate, that runs throughanthropology and social sciences since many years. This introduction aims to rethinksome issues of the so-calledCritical Theoryandcontribute to “regenerate” theextenuated notion of agency. At the same time, our analysis wants to introduce the fourarticles of the dossierAnuacJournal devoted to a panel of the conferenceUna teoria percapire, per agire, per impegnarsi. La lezione di Tullio Seppilli (A theory to understand, toact, and to be engaged. The Legacy of Tullio Seppilli), Perugia, held in 2018. Theassumption of our notes is the very social nature of psychism’s forms and individualexperience, showing how critical medical anthropology can dismantle the neoliberalvocabulary of terms such as “choice”, “change”, “opportunity”, as well as the latecapitalist rhetoric, where “agency” only translates the art of survival, the violence ofadaptation, and the new expressions of subjugation