Del Poder Soberano al Biopoder

Section role: supports Section 2 of the lesson while the teacher lectures on Foucault's theoretical shift from sovereign power to biopower. Slides: (1) Title — 'Del Poder Soberano al Biopoder'; (2) Poder Soberano versus Biopoder — bullets: contrast between 'hacer morir, dejar vivir' and 'hacer vivir, dejar morir', historical transition; (3) Anatomopolítica — bullets: definition as discipline of individual bodies, concrete examples like school uniform rows and office clock-in times; (4) Biopolítica — bullets: regulation of the population as a species, role of statistics, natality rates, and public health campaigns; (5) El Panóptico de Bentham — bullets: architectural diagram of the panopticon adapted by Foucault, mechanism of continuous visibility inducing self-control; (6) El Poder Productivo — bullets: debunking the myth that power is purely repressive, explanation of how power generates knowledge and conducts; (7) Pregunta de Reflexión — text: '¿Por qué creen que el Estado necesita saber cuántas personas nacen o mueren cada año?'. Closing slide: Hand-off prompt connecting the theoretical concepts to the upcoming digital surveillance analysis in Section 3.

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