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

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…

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Death [is] no longer something that suddenly swoop[s] down on life — as in an epidemic. Death [is] now something permanent, something that slips into life, perpetually gnaws at it, diminishes it and weakens it. Foucault, “The Birth of Biopolitics.” (via barrrrrrs)

The first use of biopolitics

The first use of biopolitics There can be little doubt that before very long every State will have to take in hand seriously the question of increased population and examine accurately the places and classes in which increase is most pronounced. The present troubles with hysterical women are greatly due to the excess of the…

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