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The Politics of Power State Power

The concept of biopower was invented by michael fukko. Power used to threaten you with death and instead forces you to live in a certain way, he says. Out of that agonben in homosocar which he wrote in the late 90s gets the idea of bare light - what power is taking a hold of is bare life. We're all stuck in bare life all the time so we we cease to have yeah oh no sorry no no you you finish that and then i'll.

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