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. When you don't win. You lose. Something like the word defeated but different. Lora totally defeted Heather with the million gold..
1. A Canadian man's tubesteak. Often touted by over-zealous Canadians as being the roto-rooter of the soul. She knows she wants to g..
1. A hypothetical object that would be the combination of a fuck and a cake. Generally referred to in comparison of somethings merit or as ..