The Digitization of Life: The Biopolitics in the Era of Digital Capitalism

Foucault initially introduced the concept of "biopolitics," a transformative framework that has revolutionized political philosophy. This study integrates Foucault's analytics of power with Marx's critique of political economy and Postone's reevaluation of the value form to construct a comprehensive analysis of digital capitalism. Engaging the Frankfurt School's critical theory alongside recent scholarship on surveillance capitalism, platform capitalism, and digital colonialism, this paper demonstrates how digitization converts everyday activities into commodified data streams. Such streams extend Marx's abstraction inherent in the commodity form into real time algorithmic governance while deepening the alienation central to capitalist social domination. The argument shows that digital capital constitutes a historically specific mode of domination that merges disciplinary micro-techniques and security configurations at the population level. Section one reviews key literatures and clarifies the original contribution; section two examines Foucault's concepts and their transformation by digital infrastructures; section three develops a Marx's critique enriched by Postone and debates on digital labor and intellectual property; and the final section proposes a vision of communist digital communities grounded in the abolition of the value form, collective stewardship of data commons, and democratic governance of algorithmic infrastructures.