Foucault’s Archaeology and Genealogy from the perspective of the Devices of Control in the Political Task

Abstract

The following paper analyses some concepts in order to understand what is a device of control and how does it work, from the perspective of Michel Foucault. Such concepts are: power, knowledge, subjects and objects that are affected by the practice of power. Such concepts are examined based on the Archaeology and Genealogy of the existing relations between power, life and death –Anatomo-politics, Biopolitics and Thanato- politics- and are even considered up to their consequences in nowadays politics.