“…Secondly, it establishes the ways in which his thinking has been resumed by contemporary thinkers who have placed the centrality of communicational techniques of power, such as Maurizio Lazzarato and Byung-Chul Han, and reinterpreted using in both cases Gilles Deleuze's proposals on control societies. In this respect, the focus is on how the concepts of “biopolitics” and “biopower” have been critically retaken as starting points for the construction of notions, such as “noopolitics” and “psychopolitics”, which seek to give account of the forms of power that are exercised no longer on bodies but primarily on the mind or psyche.…”
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