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biofascism

noun

Etymology

From bio- + fascism.

  1. derived from fasces
  2. borrowed from fascismo
  3. prefixed as biofascism — “bio + fascism”

Definitions

  1. Fascism with biomedical, bioessentialist, or eugenicist elements.

    • Genetic determinism and biofascism go hand in hand.
    • The roots of biofascism—the ideological celebration of the family—are deep in American political culture.
    • In other words, biofascism invites, if it does not demand, a totalitarian obedience to scientific authority, to the ideological political economic coordinates of neoliberalism, and to the cultural science fiction of genetic "truth."

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for biofascism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA