Meaning of biopolitical | Babel Free

Definitions

Of or pertaining to biopolitics.

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Examples

“Foucault argued in several works in the mid-1970s that one cannot understand⟳ the passage from the “sovereign” state of the ancien régime to the modern “disciplinary” state without taking into account how the biopolitical context was progressively put⟳ at the service of capitalist accumulation […]”

“They [Hardt & Negri] write⟳ of a “biopolitical” revolution—one that will transform⟳ every aspect of life. “The flesh of the multitude,” they say⟳, “is an elemental power.” It will act like⟳ some immense bio-organism, restructuring the body politic.”

“[…] a new biopolitical vocabulary for expressing racial and class anxiety: Instead of claiming brown and black people were biologically inferior, you claimed they were — for reasons you sympathized with, reasons that weren’t really their fault — compromised by the food and drink⟳ they ingested; all those artificial dyes had darkened them on the inside.”

“A global corporate power, Del Rio Inc., attempts to refunction a Mexican peasant culture of small-holders for biopolitical exploitation by commodifying the water that sustains their way of life.”

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