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BioSocieties (2006), 1, 195 217 London School of Economics and Political Science Biopower Today Paul Rabinow Department of Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. E-mail: Nikolas Rose*. Department of Sociology, London School of Economics and Political Science, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE, UK. E-mail: Abstract In this article we undertake some conceptual clarification of the concepts of biopower and biopo- litics, and argue for their utility in contemporary analysis. We consider Foucault's development of these concepts, and differentiate his view, which is close to ours, from the philosophical take-up of the terms by Giorgio Agamben and Antonio Negri. Biopower, we suggest, entails one or more truth discourses about the vital' character of living human beings; an array of authorities consid- ered competent to speak that truth; strategies for intervention upon collective existence in the name of life and health; and modes of subjectification, in which individuals work on themselves in the name of individual or collec

Q: Isn’t it logical, given these concerns, that you should be writing a genealogy of bio-power? MF: I have no time for that now, but it could be done.

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