endemics

is defined against epidemics in that the former are permanent factors that sap a population's strength, shortening the working week and costing money.

Foucault focuses on biopower's attempt to manage what he calls 'endemics,' which, unlike epidemics, are 'permanent factors . . . [that] sapped the population's strength, shortened the working week,' and 'cost money.' In this shift Foucault dissolves the attention to scenes of control over individual life and death under sovereign regimes and refocuses on the dispersed management of the biological threat posed by certain populations to the reproduction of the normativelyframed general good life of a society.7' (in berlant 'SLOW DEATH))

endemics, n.Definitions

endemics