Biopower (n.) 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 (n.) 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 (n.) 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 (n.) is a technology which appeared in the late eighteenth century for managing populations.
Biopower (n.) is a term referring to rationalized attempts to intervene upon vital characteristics.
Biopower (n.) 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'.
Biopower (n.) 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 (n.) is about managing the births, deaths, reproduction and illnesses of a population just as disciplinary power is about training the actions of bodies.
Biopower (n.) is bi-polar in its structure. It focuses on the one hand, with an anatomo-politics of the human body (which seeks to maximize and integrate it into systems), and on the other, a regulatory pole centered on the population (which concerns itself with statically grasping and guiding the species body and statistical-level accounts of birth, morbidity, mortality, and longevity).
Biopower (n.) is concerned with the body (reproduction, disease, pain) as well as the extra-bodily (work, environment). ..
Biopower (n.) is nothing less than the taking charge of life by political power. It points to how government has assigned itself the duty of administering bodies and managing collective life.
Biopower's (n.) concern with welfare and even survival are functions not of virtue, but of strength.
Biopower (n.) made life and life's mechanisms calculations.
Biopower's (n.) exercise capitalism arose out of in the shape of adjusting the accumulation of men to that of capital and joining the growth of human groups to the expansion of productive forces.
Biopower (n.) is uniquely discrete, continuous, and bottom up (in contrast to top-down discipline).