Empire dictates its laws and maintains the peace according to a model of postmodern right and postmodern law,

Disciplinary power rules in effect by structuring the parameters and limits of thought and practice, sanctioning and prescribing normal and/or deviant behaviors.

the entire first phase of capitalist accumulation (in Europe and elsewhere) was conducted under this paradigm of power.

Biopower thus refers to a situation in which what is directly at stake in power is the production and reproduction of life itself.

When we say that political theory must deal with ontology, we mean first of all that politics cannot be constructed from the outside.

pessimistic description of presocial human nature and attempted through reliance on a transcendental notion of power to establish the legitimacy of the state.

society of control, in contrast, as that society (which develops at the far edge of modernity and opens toward the postmodern) in which mechanisms of command become ever more "democratic,"

Disciplinary society is that society in which social command is constructed through a diffuse network of dispositifs or apparatuses that produce and regulate customs, habits, and productive practices.

rule of law continues to play a central role in the context of the contemporary passage: right remains effective and (precisely by means of the state of exception and police techniques) becomes procedure. This is a radical transformation that reveals the unmediated relationship between power and subjectivities,