biopower, n.All

Biopower is a term used to describe the state's new interest in men in their everyday activities replacing the state's previous focus which was centered on men as subjects with rights and duties.

Biopower is a coherent political technology which emerged in the seventeenth century. It is first concerned with scientific categories of human beings (think of species, population, race, gender, sexual practices, etc.). Secondly it is concerned with disciplinary power, or the regulation of individual bodies.

Biopower is a form of governing (or political technology) that emerged in the 18th century involving the creation and manipulation of scientific categories of human beings (i.e. Race, gender, birth rate, fertility).

Biopower is a term referring to rationalized attempts to intervene upon vital characteristics.

Biopower is about managing the births, deaths, reproduction and illnesses of a population just as disciplinary power is about training the actions of bodies.

Biopower is a form of power that regulates social life from its interior, following it, interpreting it, absorbing it, and rearticulating it. Rather than disciplinary power whereby the relationship between power and the individual remained static and contestatory, biopower is characterized by the individual embracing and reactivating it of his or her own accord.

Biopower is a technology which appeared in the late eighteenth century for managing populations.

Biopower is a term that highlights an intensification of the body, a problematization of health and its operational terms: It was a question of techniques for maximizing life. The primary concern was. . . The body, vigor, longevity, progeniture, and descent of the classes that 'ruled'.