Demographic explosion and industrialization overwhelmed the old sovereign power model
Evidence
Both technologies are obviously technologies of the body, but one is a technology in which the body is individuahzed as an organism endowed with capacities, while the other is a technology in which bodies are replaced by general biological processes. One might say this: It is as though power, which used to have sovereignty as its modality or organizing schema, found itself unable to govern the economic and political body of a society that was undergoing both a demographic explosion and industrialization. So much so that far too many things were escaping the old mechanism of the power of sovereignty, both at the top and at the bottom, both at the level of detail and at the mass level. — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 264 (
#corroborates, via linked claim)
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Industrial growth subordinated political power to economic capacity; Demographic explosion and industrialization forced power beyond sovereignty — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 264; Industrialization created problems no single state could solve, forcing centralization — Lawrence M. Friedman, A History of American Law, 3780 (+1 more)
Related
- Demographic explosion and industrialization forced power beyond sovereignty (similarity 0.95)
- Demographic explosion and industrialization forced sovereignty to yield to biopower. (similarity 0.92)
- Industrial growth subordinated political power to economic capacity (similarity 0.90)
- Industrialization created problems no single state could solve, forcing centralization (similarity 0.82)
Broader Connections
- Demographic explosion and industrialization forced power beyond sovereignty
#corroborates(1.00) — Michel Foucault, Society Must Be Defended, 264