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A Gomben's Biopolitics

A Gomben establishes his own form of biopolitics where people are reduced to a kind of Life only and it is in that moment that they can then be killed without any kind of repercussions Occurring now. This is both similar and different from the kind of biopolitical we get in Foucault Because Foucault doesn't pay quite as much attention to this possibility of death coming from this focus on life In fact, he considers more about what the proliferation of life means in terms of power Whereas a Gomben is saying this acknowledgement of things as life has Pretty negative consequences because then it strips people of anything beyond their flesh.

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