bio-power

Hi all,

Would it be reasonable to argue that Foucaultâ??s shift in emphasis from  
bio-power to government was because the bio-political â?? at least as far as  
this was discussed in the second half of the last 1976 Collège de France  
lecture, and in the first half of the last chapter of The History of  
Sexuality â?? was still figured in negative terms, in terms of deduction, or  
repression: that is to say, that it was still enframed within the Reichean  
Hypothesis? And thus that the shift to government, to political  
governmentality, was an attempt to think the bio-political in terms of the  
productivity and positivity of power: a productivity and positivity that  
is at once biological and political?

Regards - Kevin

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Kevin Turner
Dept. of Sociology
Cartmel College
Lancaster University
Lancaster
LA1 4YL

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