Foucault is explicit in SMBD that discipline is older than biopower,
but is a kind of prerequisite for it - the phrase in the English
version is that the two technologies 'dovetail' into one another,
which I particularly like.
Related to the Stalin stuff mentioned by FREDWELFARE, stuff on Nazism
is pretty relevant to biopower. Der Untergang, for example, is
extremely interesting in this regard, dealing with the last days of
Hitler that Foucault mentions in SMBD.
On 7/23/05, Richard Bailey <rb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Mark Kelly wrote:
>
> >I have to disagree with Machiel here - biopower is the government of
> >populations. Foucault is extremely precise about the relation of
> >biopower to discipline in Society Must Be Defended.
> >
> >
> In the HoS v.1 Foucault talks about the anatamo-politics of the body as
> machine and the biopolitics of population marking the era of biopower. I
> have always seen "biopower" as covering both government and discipline
> in Foucault? This would seem to be the way it is taken up by Agamben et. al.
>
> Its not quite film but I have always found Big Brother (the TV reality
> show) as interesting when thinking about Foucault. I find it quite
> startling how the contestants do not guard their behaviour in the face
> of truly a panoptic situation, rather they behave extravagantly, as if
> they are in fact characters in a scripted melodrama. The hidden cameras
> clearly produce rather restrict their behavior.
>
> I think this says a lot about how surveillance has so thoroughly
> permeated society and subjectivity.
>
>
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but is a kind of prerequisite for it - the phrase in the English
version is that the two technologies 'dovetail' into one another,
which I particularly like.
Related to the Stalin stuff mentioned by FREDWELFARE, stuff on Nazism
is pretty relevant to biopower. Der Untergang, for example, is
extremely interesting in this regard, dealing with the last days of
Hitler that Foucault mentions in SMBD.
On 7/23/05, Richard Bailey <rb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> Mark Kelly wrote:
>
> >I have to disagree with Machiel here - biopower is the government of
> >populations. Foucault is extremely precise about the relation of
> >biopower to discipline in Society Must Be Defended.
> >
> >
> In the HoS v.1 Foucault talks about the anatamo-politics of the body as
> machine and the biopolitics of population marking the era of biopower. I
> have always seen "biopower" as covering both government and discipline
> in Foucault? This would seem to be the way it is taken up by Agamben et. al.
>
> Its not quite film but I have always found Big Brother (the TV reality
> show) as interesting when thinking about Foucault. I find it quite
> startling how the contestants do not guard their behaviour in the face
> of truly a panoptic situation, rather they behave extravagantly, as if
> they are in fact characters in a scripted melodrama. The hidden cameras
> clearly produce rather restrict their behavior.
>
> I think this says a lot about how surveillance has so thoroughly
> permeated society and subjectivity.
>
>
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