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Envoi: A manifesto for the Pollen Society

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Moulier-Boutang, Y. (2012). Envoi: A manifesto for the Pollen Society. In Moulier-Boutang, Y. Cognitive Capitalism. Polity Press, pp. 149-166

biopolitics: a term defined by Foucault (though not first) as the style of government that regulates populations through "biopower" (the application and impact of political power on all aspects of human life)

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the biopower of the state [...] is like a hand grenade in relation to a nuclear explosion when we compare it to the biopower that is beginning to be exercised over the living

through cog cap

—p.150 by Yann Moulier-Boutang
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6 years, 4 months ago

the biopower of the state [...] is like a hand grenade in relation to a nuclear explosion when we compare it to the biopower that is beginning to be exercised over the living

through cog cap

—p.150 by Yann Moulier-Boutang
notable
6 years, 4 months ago
162

[...] The economy is not based on knowledge as such (although society itself is), but on the exploitation of knowledge. With the digital revolution [...] codified knowledge (databases, software) becomes information-goods and public knowledge. Economic models which since industrial capitalism have been based on the sale of them are in serious crisis: digitisation has drastically downgraded the old implementation of intellectual property rights, while the advantages gained in the field of codified knowledge are lasting for less and less time. [...]

—p.162 by Yann Moulier-Boutang 6 years, 4 months ago

[...] The economy is not based on knowledge as such (although society itself is), but on the exploitation of knowledge. With the digital revolution [...] codified knowledge (databases, software) becomes information-goods and public knowledge. Economic models which since industrial capitalism have been based on the sale of them are in serious crisis: digitisation has drastically downgraded the old implementation of intellectual property rights, while the advantages gained in the field of codified knowledge are lasting for less and less time. [...]

—p.162 by Yann Moulier-Boutang 6 years, 4 months ago