Technologies of "production of the body"
 

"technologies of production of the body and subjectivity that progressively appeared beginning with World War II"
 
"biotechnology, surgery, endocrinology, genetic engineering, etc"
 
also technologies of representation ("photography, cinema, television, internet, video games, etc")
 
"biomolecular, digital, and broadband data-transmission technologies"
 
"soft, featherweight, viscous, gelatinous technologies"
 
These technologies have been "neglected by Foucault"--comprising a "third regime of subjectivization," following the "soveriegn" and the "disciplinary"... Deleuze and Guattari's "control society" is more what Preciado has in mind, a "by-product of biopolitical control"
 
However, "[t]he disciplinary regime didn't erase the sovereign necropolitical techniques. Likewise, the pharmacopornographic regime has not totally obliterated biopolitical disciplinary techniques" (77-8)

> from Paul Preciado's Testo Junkie: Sex, Drugs, and Biopolitics in the Pharmacopornographic Era (2008, translated 2013)

> tagged with #personhood, #identity, #visual_culture, #representation, #body, #control, #technology

> created March 29, 2024 at 8:07:30 AM


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