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

securitization is not merely the lingua franca of contemporary finance; it is also the biopolitical imperative of financialization.

a concept developed by Foucault – ‘biopower’ – which refers to the government of populations and bodies that Foucault believed had emerged in the nineteenth century

this theme is central in an argument like that of Hardt and Negri, who make the antithesis between global civil war (itself comprising multiple visible or invisible wars) and the multitude (with its forms of resistance and modes of communication) the defining characteristic of the new revolutionary politics they propose, dubbing it ‘bio-politics’

'bio-politics' designates the regulation of the security and welfare of human lives as its primary goal