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An Introduction to Foucault and His Concepts

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Foucault and the Biopolitical Apparatus

Foucault finds it fascinating and almost comical that his contemporaries like Marcuse and the Raichians invest so much energy in ending the supposed regime of silence regarding what Foucault calls the noisiest of our preoccupations. Biopolitics is a complicated term, one that can often seem somewhat separate from the discourse or the analytic of sex and sexuality. Just as technologies of disciplinary power change the way in which power takes hold of the body, biopolitical apparatuses are fundamental to the way inWhich power take hold of life. On one side we have the human machine with Lumetri and the Napoleonic instructors on one side and their responses to lamin

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