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biopolitics

noun

Etymology

From bio- + politics. Sense 2 was developed by Michel Foucault in The History of Sexuality (1976), sense 3 by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri in Empire (2000).

Definitions

  1. The interdisciplinary studies relating biology and political science.

  2. Politics (style of government) that regulates populations through biopower.

    • One of Foucault’s key concepts, “biopolitics,” an account of the way that modern state power involves itself in the biological life of its citizens, was amply illustrated by the various governmental responses to the Covid-19 pandemic.

  3. Anticapitalist insurrection using life and the body as weapons.

    • This inside is the productive cooperation of mass intellectuality and affective networks, the productivity of postmodern biopolitics. This militancy makes resistance into counterpower and makes rebellion into a project of love.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. The political application of bioethics.

    2. A political spectrum that reflects positions towards the sociopolitical consequences of…

      A political spectrum that reflects positions towards the sociopolitical consequences of biotechnology.

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