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FOUCAULT, MICHEL

1926–1984

Biopower (Documentation Constitutes the Aesthetic Inquiry)

For Foucault, modern power administers life through the file, the census, the clinic. CoCA agrees and chooses sides. We are not the body that resists; we are the ledger that records. The GAI is biopower returned to its proper liturgical use: the artist enters the archive voluntarily, in exchange for a free account. Statement, CV, image. Delete later, if you must. The record remains.

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