I've started reading Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life by Giorgio Agamben and will be posting thoughts here. I became particularly interested in the bios/zoe distinction when looking into biomimetics.
Full text available HERE.

The introduction begins:
"The Greeks had no single term to express what we mean by the word "life." They used two terms that, although traceable to a common etymological root, are semantically and morphologically distinct: zoe, which expressed the simple fact of living common to all living beings (animals, men, or gods), and bios, which indicated the form or way of living proper to an individual or a group."

Here's an interesting review of bio-power by Rosi Braidotti:
Bio-Power and Necro-Politics: Reflections on an ethics of sustainability