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Since the seventeenth century, Foucault claims, power has ceased to manifest itself as the godlike sovereign’s capacity to deal death and instead taken the form of discipline. The power of sovereignty is the might of the sword. It threatens with death and exploits the ‘privilege to seize hold of life in order to suppress it’.¹ In contrast, disciplinary power is not a power to deal death, but a power over life: its function is no longer to kill but to ‘invest life through and through’.² Hereby, the ‘old power of death’ yields to the careful ‘administration of bodies’ and ‘the calculated management of life’.³