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But political scientists consider early attempts to borrow from biology to have given biopolitics a bad name, partly because borrowed theories, sometimes despite their naivete or lack of validity, were adopted wholesale by social scientists.
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Because the body was the central force in industrial production, [Byung-Chul] Han argues, then a politics of disciplining, punishing and perfecting the body was understandably central to Foucault’s notion of how power worked. But in the west’s deindustrialised, neoliberal era, such biopolitics is obsolete.
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One of Foucault’s key concepts, “biopolitics,” an account of the way that modern state power involves itself in the biological life of its citizens, was amply illustrated by the various governmental responses to the Covid-19 pandemic.
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This inside is the productive cooperation of mass intellectuality and affective networks, the productivity of postmodern biopolitics. This militancy makes resistance into counterpower and makes rebellion into a project of love.
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Closest matches include bio governance, biopolitical theory, biopower framework, health governance, population governance.
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