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MICHEL FOUCAULT > > The Birth of Biopolitics > > > > Edited by Michel Senellart > > General Editors: Fransois Ewald and Alessandro Fontana > > LECTURES AT THE COLLEGE DE FRANCE, > > 1978-79 > > > > > Chapter eleven 28 March 1979 page 267 > > > > > Concerning: > > The model of homo economicus. Its generalztion to every > > form of behavior in American neo-liberalism. Economic analysis > > and behavioral techniques. Homo economicus as the basic > > element of the new governmental reason appeared in the eighteenth > > century. Elements for a history of the notion of homo economicus > > before Walras and Pareto. The subject of interest in English > > empircist philosophy (Hume). The heterogeneity of the subject > > of interest and the legal subject: (1) The irreducible nature of interest > > in comparison with juridical will. (2) The contrasting logics of the > > market and the contract. Second innovation with regard to the > > juridical model: the economic subject's relationship ·with political > > power. Condorcet. Adam Smith's "invisible hand": invisibility of > > the link between the individual's pursuit of profit and the growth of > > collective wealth. The non-totalizable nature of the economic world. > > The sovereign's necessary ignorance. Political economy as critique > > of governmental reason: rejection of the possibility of an economic > > sovereign in its two, mercantilist and physiocratic, forms. Political > > economy as a science lateral to the art of government. > >

2) > > Digital Labor > > The Internet as Playground and Factory > > Trebor Scholz (ed.) (2013)

> 3) > > Bastard Culture > > How User Participation Transforms Cultural Production > Marco Tobias Schafer (2011) > &c.