WGS385H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Biopolitics, Biopower, Neoliberalism
28 Nov 2016
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Foucault"s biopower: the administration of bodies and the calculated management of life. Numerous and diverse techniques for achieving the subjugating of bodies and the control of populations . What brought life and its mechanisms into the real of explicit calculations and made knowledge-power an agent of transformation of human life. Relates back to knowledge and power - human body to realm of social control. Biopower is how it disperses though social structure and how it controls and social power population. An indispensable element in the development of capitalism. Under feudalism about control and administration of land, under population about populations and then later individual bodies two ways to exercise biopower: discipline: The disciplining of subjects in ordered spaces (schools, prisons, mental institutions) Requires micromanagement of bodies so that they are normalized and perform societal duties. Surveillance creates self-regulation (or idea of surveillance) Requires various mechanisms of enforcement (surveillance, punishment : biopolitics.
