I've been working on a concept the last few years I'm calling "political physiology." I'm defining it as "the study of interlocking intensive processes that articulate the patterns, thresholds, and triggers of emergent bodies, forming assemblages linking the social and the somatic, with sometimes the subjective as intermediary." One of the key examples is military training, in which the sub-subjective reflexes and basic emotions of the soldiers are keyed to commands issued by the leader of the unit, so that in a way the real agent of the action is the entire assemblage, not the individual subjectivities. You can read a draft of an article (under review) on this topic by clicking here.
I think we see an example for which this sort of analysis is helpful in reading a scene in Battlestar Galactica episode 2:3, "Fragged."