Biopolitical mills. Topographies of Power in Early Peripheral Capitalism

<p>City of Lodz is an exceptional case of industrial<br />settlement, a focal point of di}erent kinds and techniques<br />of power typical for nineteenth century industrial capi-<br />talism. Disciplinary power parceling bodies, biopower<br />providing with population stability, paternalistic gaze of<br />the factory owner and monarchic sovereignty of the tsa-<br />rist rule once met in the Scheibler and Grohman’s indu-<br />strial establishment and nearby workers’ housing estate.<br />{is peripheral capitalism and relations accompanying<br />it let us verify Foucaultian analysis of power and have a<br />new look at it. Di}erent and less stable pattern of corre-<br />lation of power techniques emerges here; power is no<br />longer strictly related to the temporal matrix or a func-<br />tional demands of capitalist production, and temporarily<br />ossi/es in relocated and contingent con/gurations. It is<br />an implicit illustration of a new paradigm of power ana-<br />lysis, which Foucault presented when his interest was not<br />an industrial city any more, namely the „topological<br />analysis”, as S. J. Collier aptly called it.</p>