ABSTRACT
This chapter intends to supplement the discussion by inquiring what kind of relation there is between, on the one hand, counter-conductive resistance, and on the other hand, the relational, affective gay mode of life as Foucault sees it. The objective/objectifying perception and experience remains a salient issue, when Foucault develops the notions of government and governmentality, as well as those of biopolitics and biopower, in the later 1970s and early 1980s. Foucault suggests that in the course of the centuries, the pastoral dispositive was secularised, modified and appropriated in the inauguration of the modern stately government of living populations. When Foucault starts to unpack the meaning of the gay or homosexual form or mode of life, he stresses recurrently that this mode of life is not something defined by desire, sexual acts, or sexual identity built around the former.
