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Michel Foucault’s notion of governmentality has a significance for us today because it suggests alternative ways of thinking the activity of politics. The forces of power that subject us, the systems of rule that administer us, the types of authority that master us—do not find their principle of coherence in a State nor do they answer to a logic of oppression or domination. My last point will be this: The emergence of social science cannot … be isolated from the rise of this new political rationality and from this new political technology.
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