population

wedding stuff

aging

aging society

Japan

old age

trivia

statistics

ology (the study of)

Nebraska

California

equator

Montana

Tokyo

Canada

is a level of abstraction at which one can pick out constants and regularities in ensembles of elements even when it comes to accidents.

. 'the development of larger and larger circuits,' ensemble of elements from which one can pick out constants and regularities even when it comes to accidents' (foucault in rabinow 2006 talk).

is a new technology of power which is not exactly society (i.e. The social body) nor the individual body, but a new body, a multiple body whose heads are uncountable without being infinite).

What we are dealing with in this new technology of power is not exactly society (or at least not the social body, as defined by the jurist), nor is it the individual body. It is a new body, a multiple body, a body with so many heads that, while they might not be infinite in number, cannot necessarily be counted. Biopolitics deals with the population, with the population as a political problem, as a problem that is at once scientific and political, as a biological problem and as power's problem.'

is a specific objectivity, having its own regularities, its own rate of deaths and diseases, its cycles of scarcity, and so on.

t, through statistical forms of representation, population was identified as a specific objectivity: as an entity that had 'its own regularities, its own rate of deaths and diseases, its cycles of scarcity, and so on' (Foucault Power 2000: 216). non-discursive institutionsdiscursive statements

is a methodology that was originally related to catastrophes and mortality tables, tables that made a quantification of knowledge about the causes of death.

Let's say that the problem of population was posed in relation to the desert or desertification due to major human catastrophes. Moreover, it is entirely in keeping with this that the famous mortality tables you know that eighteenth century demography could only begin inasmuch as some countries, and England in particular, had established mortality tables that made a quantification and knowledge of the causes of death possible had not always existed, of course, and above all were not always continuous. (Foucault 1978/2008 :95).

is the object of an art of government that involved regulating the population to act in accord with its own inherent laws.

arose as a quasi-natural object. . . the art of government became the art of inducing and regulating the population to act in accord with its own inherent laws' (rabinow 2006 talk)

is, when unchecked, bound to increase in a geometric ratio while subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.

Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometric ratio. Subsistence increases only in an arithmetical ratio.

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