Psychopolitics and power in contemporary political thought

Resumen:
In this paper I compare the psychopolitical account given by Byung-Chul Han and Stiegler with the Foucauldian biopolitical framework. Taking into account Deleuze's and Baudrillard's remarks on the new society, Stiegler proposes to use the term psycho-power to complete Foucault's model. Byung-Chul Han has suggested that we are in a psychopolitical age that goes far beyond the biopolitical account. This analysis is linked to Bauman's work on liquid modernity, and to a reconceptualization of power.