Contemporary Fragilities

This article explores the intersection of subjectivity, spirituality, and care networks in contexts of contemporary fragility from a critical and poststructuralist perspective. In societies marked by multiple crises, religion does not disappear but is transformed into a resource for reconfiguring vulnerability—either as a balm or as a disciplinary device. The text develops four axes: the ambivalent role of religious dispositive in biopolitics; spirituality as resistance in contexts of exclusion; the production of believing subjectivities shaped by power; and affective spiritual cartographies in Latin America. Through case studies and dialogue with theorists such as Foucault, Agamben, Butler, Deleuze, and Latin American scholars, the article argues that lived religions function as signifying practices that territorialize suffering and rearticulate the common. Vulnerability is approached not as a passive condition but as a relational and political dimension capable of generating new ethics of care, micropolitical resistance, and non-normative subjectivities.