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The strategies & tactics of biopower are meant to improve life

The strategies and tactics of biopower differ from other technologies of power: they are meant to improve life: its mental and physical well-being, its longevity, its environment, its productivity, its efficiency, etc.

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7. Representation, resistance, biopower
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C. Biopolitics
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A. Biopower
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The strategies & tactics of biopower are meant to improve life
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Biopower is a means of managing & governing the life of the population
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Biopower: control of groups of people & entire populations
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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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