From biopolitics to ethopolitics: Foucault and us

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https://doi.org/10.13130/2239-5474/2871

Keywords:

Standardization, optimization, Surveillance Society, efficiency, ethopolitics

Abstract

Foucault's category of the "society of normalization" is no longer apt to grasp the functioning of contemporary societies. The logic and mathematics of normalization have been replaced by the logic and mathematics of optimization. Such a historical passage marks the birth of ethopolitics.

Author Biography

  • Davide Tarizzo, University of Salerno
    Docente di Filosofia morale

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Published

2013-02-02

Issue

No. 4-1 (2013): Places and Figures of the Subject

Section

Essays

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From biopolitics to ethopolitics: Foucault and us. (2013). Nóema, 4-1. https://doi.org/10.13130/2239-5474/2871