Population Objects: Interpassive Subjects
Population Objects: Interpassive Subjects
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10.1177/0038038510394027
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2011-04
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E. Ruppert
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E. Ruppert
虽然福柯将人口描述为生物权力的对象，但他并没有调查使了解人口成为可能的实践。相反，他倾向于过分强调它是权力可以作用的对象。然而，人口并不是一个等待发现的对象，而是通过特定的手段来表示和制定的，比如人口普查和我所说的人口指标。后者通过以各种方式收集不同类别和测量对象（传记，生物统计和交易）来确定和测量人口的表现。我通过思考设备如何由代理组成来解释客体和主体;也就是说，人类和技术的特定安排，其中介和互动不仅制定了人口，而且还产生了主体。我认为，人口度量使主体成为相互被动的，其他存在物或物体代替主体扮演角色并采取行动。
While Foucault described population as the object of biopower he did not investigate the practices that make it possible to know population. Rather, he tended to overemphasize it as an object on which power can act. However, population is not an object awaiting discovery, but is represented and enacted by specific devices such as censuses and what I call population metrics. The latter enact populations by assembling different categories and measurements of subjects (biographical, biometric and transactional) in myriad ways to identify and measure the performance of populations. I account for both the object and subject by thinking about how devices consist of agencements; that is, specific arrangements of humans and technologies whose mediations and interactions not only enact populations but also produce subjects. I suggest that population metrics render subjects interpassive whereby other beings or objects take up the role and act in place of the subject.