Monday 27 June 2011

biopoliticis and noopolitics

While Foucault was suggesting through his biopolitics the process of extracting information form the human body, of understanding and exploiting its mechanisms, the idea of noopolitics suggests the process of extracting information from the human brain, of understanding and exploiting its own mechanisms. Twenty years of constant networking and protocol control transformed a mass of skilled human brains into a network-like entities that melded together into armies of data consumption/production. Noopolitics   
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