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Governmentality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a concern for how the sovereign state and the modern autonomous individual co-determine each other's emergence.

Governmentality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a concern for those strategies, tactics, that seek to mold conduct for the welfare of 'each and all'.

Governmentality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a natural science rather than a disciplinary science, one operating on statistics of population rather than the disciplining of individuals.

Governmentality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a political logic whose target is population, that is, it aims to intervene in the particulars of human conduct so as to enhance the security, longevity, health, prosperity, and happiness of populations.

Governmentality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a theoretical concept allowing us to see neo-liberalism not just as an ideological rhetoric, a political-economic reality, nor as a practical anti-humanism, but as a political project that endeavors to create a social reality that it suggests already exist.

Governmentality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠concerned with the individual's capacity for self-control and how this is linked to forms of political rule and economic exploitation'.

Governmentality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠made possible by the pastoral, by new diplomatic military techniques, and by the police.

Governmentality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not a mode of power that replaces sovereign power and disciplinary power. It acts in concert with them as a 'triangle' sovereignty-discipline-government.

Governmentality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not reduced to the state but to a multitude of heterogeneous entities: From politicians, philanthropist, and state bureaucrats to academics, clerics, and medics.

Governmentality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the array of knowledges and techniques concerned with the systematic guidance and pragmatic guidance and regulation of everyday conduct.

Governmentality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the ensemble formed by the institutions, procedures, analyzes and reflections, the calculations and tactics that allow the exercise of this very specific complex form of power, which has as its target population, as its principal form of knowledge political economy, and as its essential technical means apparatuses of security.

Governmentality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the modern form of power which has in the west become preeminent over all other forms (sovereignty, discipline).

Governmentality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the more or less considered and calculated ways of thinking and acting that propose to shape, regulate, or manage the conduct of individuals or groups toward specific goals or ends'. . . 'Any rational effort to influence or guide the comportment of others.

Governmentality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the process, or rather the result of the process, through which the state of justice of the middle ages, transformed into the administrative state during the 15th and 16th centuries.

Governmentality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the techniques and procedures which are designed to govern the conduct of both individuals and populations at every level not just the administrative or political level.

Governmentality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the totality of practices, by which one can constitute, define, organize, instrumentalize the strategies which individuals in their liberty can have in regard to each other.

Governmentality (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a logic of government which has the population as its target, political economy as its major form of knowledge, and apparatuses of security as its essential technical instrument.