Biopolitics (n.) is a concern with a new technology of power called population. Population is not exactly society (i.e. The social body) nor the individual body, but a new body, a multiple body.
Biopolitics (n.) is a defuse form of power that operates on the level of taxation, irrigation, sanitation, etc. As such, the death and life of the individual, is wholly anonymized.
Biopolitics (n.) is a form of power addressed to a multiplicity of men (or population), whereas disciplinary power is concerned primarily with breaking a multiplicity of men into individual bodies, and sovereign power instituted the state's power over territory (or land).
Biopolitics (n.) is a politics of the bios, or the state's concern with the biological well-being of the population (I.E, disease control and prevention, adequate food and water supply, sanitary shelter, education.).
Biopolitics (n.) is a silent war operating outside institutions and disciplining through wider social networks.
Biopolitics (n.) is complementary to disciplinary power and sovereign power while also undermining or overwhelming some particular aspects of them.
Biopolitics (n.) is concerned with regulating and optimizing those things that typify groups of living human beings (i.e. Reproduction, human sexuality, health, work, birth, death, etc.).
Biopolitics (n.) is concerned with taking charge of regulating the populace's wealth and health and sets to the side the question of life on the level of the individual.
Biopolitics (n.) is concerned with targeting the increasing overlap and intra-investments between the economic, the political, and the cultural.
Biopolitics (n.) is concerned with the regulation of the populaces' wealth and health. The subject of biopolitics is, by rights, neither alive nor dead.
Biopolitics (n.) is, in contrast to sovereignty (which concerns the imposing of hard laws) about exercising flexible and disposable tactics.
Biopolitics (n.) is the idea that, in capitalism, the body, the somatic, and the corporeal are the main site of control for capitalist (as opposed to consciousness or ideology).
Biopolitics (n.) is the increasing state concern with 'population' as a problem both political and scientific. It is a concern with the biological well-being of the population, with disease, food, sanitation, and education.