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Biopower: control of groups of people & entire populations

Biopower is about managing people as a group in ways that allow for the control of entire populations. It is essential to the workings of the modern nation state and capitalism

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A. Biopower
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Biopower: control of groups of people & entire populations
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Biopower is a means of managing & governing the life of the population
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Forms of life incapable of self-regulation needs discipline/punishment
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It is productive power: creates/regulates health/welfare of population
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Technology of power = disciplinary institutions & regulatory controls.
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The strategies & tactics of biopower are meant to improve life
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