_BIOPOWER (in Politics)_

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Some Facts

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*-   So all-encompassing is power today that it can control the inner and outer lives of individuals. Foucault calls it biopolitics.

*-   Biopower is able to control the body and mind of everyday life, it is “an indispensable element in the development of capitalism” (Foucault 1980: 141).

*- Biopower is the most important resource of democracy today.

Source: 'Rabinranath Tagore and the Democracy of Our Times', Economics & Political Weekly ; May 13, 2017]

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