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1、FromPowertoBiopowerPaul-AntoineMiquelMaîtredeConférencesHDRàl’UniversitédeNice.LaboratoireCEPERC,UMRCNRS,6059,UniversitédeProvence.Abstract :Theconceptof« power »playsanimportantroleinMichelFoucault’scriticoftheclassicalmodelofsovereignty.Thispapershowshow“power”isr
2、elatedto“normalisation”inSurveilleretpunirandinLavolontédesavoir.Powerisnotonlythewaybywhichsomebodyactsontheactionofsomebody,butalsoasystemicpropertyemerginginasocialnetwork.Itemergesasacollectivestrategy,withoutanystrategist,andwithoutanysubject.Onecouldcallthisa“
3、constructive”property.However,“biopower”isnotsimply“power”.Itisan“extension”ofit.InLavolontédeSavoir,Foucaulttriestounderstandhowbiopowerwillorganiseahumansocialnetwork,inwhichbiologicalconstraintsare“reflected”bypoliticalones.Humanspeciesisnotsimplytheexpressionofa
4、naturalkind,butalsotheresultofasocialandofapoliticalconstruction.ThispaperanalysesthisimportantchangeinFoucault’sphilosophyofpower.Keywords :Power;Biopower;Normalisation;Relation;Ecology.IntroductionThequestionofpowerinFoucault’sworkwillbeaskedbyusbetween1975and1976
5、.Inthisperiod,Foucaultexaminesgeneralpunishmentandsexuality“systems”associalandtechnologicaldevices:thesocalled“Dispositif”(Foucault,1976,Ch.IV).“Dispositifs”arenot“Disciplines”.Disciplinesarefittedtoindividuals.Theyaretacticaltools.A“Dispositif”isastrategicsocialan
6、dtechnicaldevice.Itconcernstheorganisationofahumansocietyatacertainperiodofitshistory.ItexpressesabigevolutioninFoucault’svocabulary,sincea“Dispositif”isalsonotasimple“Episteme”(Foucault,1966).An“Episteme”isatruthregulationsystem(“Unrégimedevérité”),liketheoneinwhic
7、hthehumanbeingbecomestobeanalysedandstudiedthroughvariousanddifferentiatedhumanandsocialsciences.Insuchasystem,whatistrueandfalseisconstructedbyit.Itdoesn’tmeanthattruthisonlyaname;itbetterrevealsthattruthisnothingbutaneventconstructedbythesystemoftruth.Thatisthefir
8、stlevelofnominalism:truthisnothingbutaconstructivediscursivepropertypresentinadiscursivesystem.Yetthereisnowasecondone:thetruthregulations