One Life Only: Biological Resistance, Political Resistance – Critical Inquiry

That a resistance to what is known today as biopower—the control,
regulation, exploitation, and instrumentalization of the living
being—might emerge from possibilities written into the structure of the
living being itself, not from the philosophical concepts that tower over
it; that there might be a biological resistance to the biopolitical;
that the bio- might be viewed as a complex and contradictory authority,
opposed to itself and referring to both the ideological vehicle of
modern sovereignty and to that which holds it in check: this,
apparently, has never been thought.