ANTH 308 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Biopolitics, Common Good, Governmentality

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We need to read this metaphor to understand what is meant by it - the ship: the truth is different in different contexts, the state should and needs to be disaggregated and is not a whole entity. There is a shift in rationality and with this shift so does the techniques and, in this shift, law is no longer the primary technique but now it is tactics: ex: daycare example, birthrate crisis bio-political one. The way you deal with it is by producing incentives: disincentivization comes out in these schemes. The law is a mechanism of no. it is a negative power. Can tactics also come by means of no as well as incentives. They cannot in the sense of representation the power of the law. They can work in the negative in the dis-incentivization of tactics. If you don"t smoke, it"s not because trudeau tells you it"s bad.

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