biopower.
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.
Meaning & usage
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.
Bioenergy.
Where this word comes from
From bio- + power, calque of French biopouvoir, coined by Michel Foucault.
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