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Did Foucault make any normative claims concerning biopower?

After mapping out the changing technologies and uses of discipline within different areas of society (in military barracks, the classroom, prisons), does Foucault ever claim these changes and evolutions to be socially desirable?

It seems like these methods of control come with both positive and negatives effects on the lives of individuals. One could easily see how these instances of 'micro-power' shapes our very being as persons; but I believe that our increasing surveillance and control over each and every person has clear benefits. I'm assuming Foucault wasn't some primativist who thought modern modes of being increasingly sterilized our true animal behavior and stunted our authentic growth.
EDIT: I should note that I strongly disagree with anarcho-primativism, but if I were one, I would probably find Foucault's work pretty damn important in justifying my own worldview.
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He's definitely not a primitivist that denounces the modern world outright. He just has a habit of describing power in a dismal way, despite the fact that he is trying to be purely descriptive and refraining from making any normative judgments.  Nancy Fraser's “Foucault on Modern Power: Empirical Insights and Normative Confusions” is touchstone essay on this topic.