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biopolitics

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English

Etymology

politics- +‎

Noun

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biopolitics (uncountable)

  1. (deprecated template usage) (Michel Foucault) The style of government that regulates populations through biopower.
  2. (deprecated template usage) (Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri) 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.

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