Michael HardtThinkers

Biopolitical power is distinguished from disciplinary power in this: with disciplinary power the relationship between power and the individual is static. In biopolitical power, by contrast, the whole social body is comprised by power's machine and developed in its virtuality.

Biopower is the mode by which subjectivities, sociality, and society are produced (not from top down as foucault would have it) but from the perspective of labor, that is, where power works directly on affects.

The Body is, in capitalism, the main site of control, as opposed to consciousness or ideology.

The Body is the main site of control in capitalism. Biopolitics (or the politics of the body) is of critical important.

Disciplinary power is that which structures the social terrain and present logics. The disciplinary invasion of power corresponded to the resistance of the individual.

A Disciplinary society is a society in which the relationship between power and the individual is a static one.

Immanence is absolute immanence in itself.

Machinic is simply understood to mean neither referring to any object nor pertaining to any subject.

Social bios is taken up analytically as an attempt to move beyond the cultural and economic dimensions of society.

A Swarm is a network with no center to dictate order, populated by a multitude of creative agents.