Meaning of biopower | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The sum of the various techniques used by modern nation-states to control not individual subjects but their entire populations, as contrasted with traditional modes of power based on the threat of death from a sovereign.
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2. Bioenergy.
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Equivalents

Examples

“The third type⟳ of power, biopower, emerges from the eighteenth century onward, and is directed toward populations rather than individual bodies.”

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