149
Envoi: A manifesto for the Pollen Society
1
terms
1
notes
biopolitics
(en)
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)
150
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
notable
6 years, 11 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
notable
6 years, 11 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. [...]
[...] 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. [...]