Biopolitics & Zootechnics

Abstract

This paper aims to study from the seventeenth century, in which way the constitution as objects of government of men and the species as "living beings” –what Michel Foucault calls "biopower"– provides the ability to transfer techniques and problems concerning the government of other living beings-animals-particularly in the government of men. It shows how farming and animal husbandry matrices become crucial to think politics, outlining two lines: the instinct technologies and the improvement of the species. It then focuses on the second line by analyzing the state of improvement device, import and conservation of breeds of horses from Colbert implements, biopower as a model before studying transferability certain point of view men