biopolitical power

is distinguished from disciplinary power in this: with disciplinary power the relationship between power and the individual is static. In biopolitical power, by contrast, the whole social body is comprised by power's machine and developed in its virtuality. 

in disciplinary society, then, the relationship between power and the individual remained a static one: the disciplinary invasion of power corresponded to the resistance of the individual. By contrast, when power becomes entirely biopolitical, the whole social body is comprised by power's machine and developed in its virtuality' (Hardt and Negri 2000 24).

biopolitical power, n.All

biopolitical power