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Biopolitics studies how the government of human beings qua living beings is theorized and practiced. Biopolitical anthropology studies how human nature is conceived from a biopolitical point of view, and what impact such a conception has on society and culture. Michel Foucault laid the foundations for research into biopolitics in the '70s, but today the situation is quite different; hence the need to revise, at least partially, the conceptual framework for biopolitical inquiries.Over the last decades, notions such as modularity and optimization have become key to understanding the evolution of governmental rationality, while concepts such as population and behavior have taken on a new meaning, in a continued effort to naturalize or utterly biologize all aspects of human life for the purpose of improving the biopolitical technologies of power and widening the range of potential applications. Against the backdrop of such developments that are changing the face of some social sciences and increasingly compromising the legitimacy of others, a new grammar of knowledge has gained ground, and with it, a new idea of what it means to be human.
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