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Security, Territory, Population: Lectures at the Collège de France 1977--1978
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By Michel Foucault, Michel Senellart (Editor), Graham Burchell (Translator), François Ewald (Editor), Alessandro Fontana (Editor), Arnold I. Davidson (Editor)
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Marking a major development in Michel Foucault's thinking, Security, Territory, Population takes as its starting point the notion of "biopower," studying the foundations of this new technology of power over populations.
Distinct from punitive disciplinary systems, the mechanisms of power are here finely entwined with the technologies of security. In this volume, though, Foucault begins to turn his attention to the history of "governmentality," from the first centuries of the Christian era t...