Until the very end... Foucault continued to investigate the "process of subjectivization" that, in the passage from the ancient to the modern world, bring the individual to objectify his own self, constituting himself as a subject and, at the same time, binding himself to a power of external control. ...Foucault never brought his insights to bear on... the exemplary place of modern biopolitics: the politics of the great totalitarian states of the twentieth century. The inquiry that began with a reconstruction of the grand enfermement in hospitals and prisons did not end with an analysis of the concentration camp. If, on the other hand... studies of Hannah Arendt dedicated to the structure of totalitarian states in the postwar period, have a limit, it is precisely the absence of any biopolitical perspective. Arendt very clearly discerns the link between totalitarian rule and the particular condition of life that is the camp: "The supreme goal of all totalitarian states," she writes... "is not only the freely admitted, long ranging ambition for global rule, but also the never admitted and immediately realized attempt at total domination. The concentration camps are the laboratories in the experiment of total domination, for, human nature being what it is, this goal can be achieved only under the extreme circumstances of human made hell."

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Until the very end... Foucault continued to investigate the "process of subjectivization" that, in the passage from the ancient to the modern world, bring the individual to objectify his own self, constituting himself as a subject and, at the same time, binding himself to a power of external control. ...Foucault never brought his insights to bear on... the exemplary place of modern biopolitics: the politics of the great totalitarian states of the twentieth century. The inquiry that began with a reconstruction of the grand enfermement in hospitals and prisons did not end with an analysis of the concentration camp. If, on the other hand... studies of Hannah Arendt dedicated to the structure of totalitarian states in the postwar period, have a limit, it is precisely the absence of any biopolitical perspective. Arendt very clearly discerns the link between totalitarian rule and the particular condition of life that is the camp: "The supreme goal of all totalitarian states," she writes... "is not only the freely admitted, long ranging ambition for global rule, but also the never admitted and immediately realized attempt at total domination. The concentration camps are the laboratories in the experiment of total domination, for, human nature being what it is, this goal can be achieved only under the extreme circumstances of human made hell."" in the context of "Giorgio Agamben, The Omnibus Homo Sacer (2017) citing Arendt, Essays p. 240" to mean that wisdom is timeless.