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What does Foucault mean by "de-individualizing" ?

>Do  not  demand  of  politics  that  it  restore  the  "rights"  of  the    
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>individual, as philosophy has defined them. The individual is the product   
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>of power. What is needed is to "de-individualize" by means of multipli-  
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>cation  and  displacement,  diverse  combinations.  The  group  must  not  be    
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>the organic bond uniting hierarchized individuals, but a constant genera-  
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>tor of de-individualization.   
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>\- Foucault (Anti-Oedipus preface)

What does Foucault mean by "de-individualizing" here?
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The quote is the last of the principles Foucault extracts from the *Anti-Œdipus* taken as a guide to a non-fascist life. 

“De-individualisation” is a very difficult and layered idea. In its most general aspect, it comes from the problem of individuation. For Deleuze & Guattari, the individual is not given conceptually, but is the result of a process of individuation (the concept of individuation comes from Gilbert Simondon).
De-individualisation could mean unveiling this genesis of the individual. More so, it means unveiling the genesis of one particular conception of the individual, the individual understood as subject, personhood, identity, self.

D&G reject – as does Foucault – a bundle of concepts as either irrelevant or harmful: unity, totality, organic form, etc. When it comes to how we live ourselves (what am I?) it means a rejection of the subject. People aren't subjects, if subject means this unified and totalling organic form.
Guattari for example – who said « we're all small groups [groupuscules] » – distinguished in *Psychoanalysis and transversality* between "subjected groups" (hierarchic, totalling) and "subject-groups" (transversal, open). To show that the relations D&G have with the concepts of subject or individual can be loose, although rigorous.

Under the fixed form of the individual (Foucault says the individual product of power), D&G aim at rediscovering the « pre-individual singularities and impersonal individuations » that constitute a force field before structures, powers, etc. delineate an abstract subject always closed upon itself.