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This article maintains that Foucault's work, "The Birth of Biopolitics," belongs to the "juridical paradigm" and remains within a functionalist template. For Foucault, the economy is an abstraction which is over determined by re-signifying practices, norms and laws. But if there is no market logic independent of state regulation, then the market does not provide a limit for the reason of state, as classical liberalism has traditionally argued, but its very negation. Without a differentiated political sphere there is no differentiated politics. And if there is a continuum between the economic, the juridical and the political spheres, then there is no way to distinguish between human agency and its reference to the ideas of good/bad, legitimate/illegitimate from the technical-productive practices. Adapted from the source document.

How does the "Pinochet case" affect the Chilean democratic transition? This article intends to answer that question in relation to two specific points: (1) the consequences of the "case" for the recent memory & for the political imaginary; (2) an eventual unblocking of the political reforms as a result of the end of impunity. The London trial marks a turning point between the strategy of oblivion & that of remembrance. It has shown, nevertheless, the limitations of the political transition. To what extent the so-called transition is just the administration of an already consolidated state regime inherited from the past? Adapted from the source document.