Biopower

What is Biopower?


1.

A term originally coined by French philosopher Michel Foucault to refer to the practice of modern states and their regulation of their subjects through "an explosion of numerous and diverse techniques for achieving the subjugations of bodies and the control of populations".

Regulation of customs, habits, health, reproductive practices, family, "blood", and "well-being" would be straightforward examples of biopower, as would any conception of the state as a "body" and the use of state power as essential to its "life".

See michel, foucault, sexuality, technology


66

Random Words:

1. used when you want to throw your classmates off in class Rolling on floor laughing my fucking ass off pissing my self Studen..
1. two people who are not married to eachother or dating eachother having sexual relations. jackass: dude, i slept with a prostitute last ..
1. This is what you give your girlfriend or wife in order to find out if she's ticklish. "Hey Joe! How do you find out of a girl..