biopolitics

English

Etymology

bio- +‎ politics. Sense 1 was developed by Michel Foucault, sense 2 by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri.

Noun

biopolitics (uncountable)

1. Politics (style of government) that regulates populations through biopower.
2. Anticapitalist insurrection using life and the body as weapons.
3. The political application of bioethics.
4. A political spectrum that reflects positions towards the sociopolitical consequences of biotechnology.

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: biopolitiikka
• Greek: βιοπολιτική (el) f (viopolitikí)
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• Serbo-Croatian: biopolitika