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A neologism coined by Michel Foucault, the term "Biopolitics" or "Biopolitical" can refer to several different yet not incompatible concepts. A neologism is a word, term, or phrase which has been recently created (coined) —often to apply to new concepts, or to reshape older terms in newer language form. ... Michel Foucault Michel Foucault (October 15, 1926 – June 26, 1984) was a French philosopher who held a chair at the Collège de France, which he gave the title The History of Systems of Thought. ...


Definitions

  1. In the work of Michel Foucault, the style of government that regulates populations through biopower.
  2. A political spectrum that reflects positions towards reproductive technology and genetic engineering upon the techno-progressive/bioconservative axis.
  3. Political advocacy in support of, or in opposition to, reproductive technology and genetic engineering.
  4. Public policies regarding reproductive technology and genetic engineering.
  5. Political advocacy concerned with the welfare of all forms of life.
  6. The application and impact of political power on all aspects of life.

Michel Foucault Michel Foucault (October 15, 1926 – June 26, 1984) was a French philosopher who held a chair at the Collège de France, which he gave the title The History of Systems of Thought. ... Biopower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... A political spectrum is a way of comparing or visualizing different political positions, by placing them upon one or more geometric axes. ... Reproductive technology is a term for all current and anticipated uses of technology in human and animal reproduction, including: artificial insemination artificial wombs cloning (see human cloning for the special case of human beings) cryopreservation of sperm, oocytes, embryos embryo testing embryo transfer genetic engineering hormone treatment to increase fertility... An iconic image of genetic engineering; this 1986 autoluminograph of a glowing transgenic tobacco plant bearing the luciferase gene of the firefly strikingly demonstrates the power and potential of genetic manipulation. ... Techno-progressivism, technoprogressivism, or tech-progressivism, is a stance of active support for technological development in general and for human practices of genetic, prosthetic, and cognitive modification in particular. ... Bioconservatism is a stance of hesitancy about technological development in general and strong opposition to the genetic, prosthetic or cognitive modification of human beings in particular. ... Politics is the process and method of decision-making for groups of human beings. ... Advocacy is a parasol term for organized activism related to a particular set of issues. ... Public policy is a policy or set of policies which forms the foundation of public law. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Political power is a type of power held by a person or group in a society. ... Look up life and living in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...

Politics and the Life Sciences

As a field of the academic discipline of political science, biopolitics is also known as "politics and the life sciences". The Association for Politics and the Life Sciences (APLS) [1] was formed in 1981 and exists to study the field of biopolitics as a subfield of political science. APLS owns and publishes an academic peer-reviewed journal called Politics and the Life Sciences (PLS). The journal is edited in the United States at the University of Maryland, College Park’s School of Public Policy, in Maryland. Political science is a social science discipline that deals with the theory and practice of politics and the description and analysis of political systems and political behavior. ... Politics is a process by which collective decisions are made within groups. ... Biology studies the variety of life (clockwise from top-left) E. coli, tree fern, gazelle, Goliath beetle Biology is the science of life (from the Greek words bios = life and logos = word). ... The University of Maryland, College Park (also known as UM, UMD, or UMCP) is a public university located in College Park, Maryland, just outside Washington, D.C., USA. As the flagship institution of the University System of Maryland, the university is most often referred to as the University of Maryland... Official language(s) None Capital Annapolis Largest city Baltimore Area  - Total  - Width  - Length  - % water  - Latitude  - Longitude Ranked 42nd 32,160 km² 145 km 400 km 21 37°53N to 39°43N 75°4W to 79°33W Population  - Total (2000)  - Density Ranked 19th 5,296,486 165...


The Department of Political Science at Northern Illinois University offers undergraduate and graduate courses in the field of politics and the life sciences. It is the only political science department in the U.S. to offer politics and the life sciences as a graduate field of study. Political science is a social science discipline that deals with the theory and practice of politics and the description and analysis of political systems and political behavior. ... Northern Illinois University is a comprehensive teaching and research institution with a student enrollment of more than 25,000. ...


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Biopolitics (878 words)
The theory of sovereign right functioned on the basis of the pre-determined and complementary notions of individual and society, which, at the outcome of the sovereign constitutive process, are transformed into the contracting individual and the social body constituted through the contract (whether voluntary or implicit).
The novel aspect introduced in the analysis of power by the notion of biopolitics is that the latter does not deal with society (as the judicial body defined by law and the contract), nor with the individual-body.
It is the notion of population: biopolitics is concerned with population as a political and scientific problem, as a biological issue of the exercise of power.
Database/Body: Bioinformatics, Biopolitics, and Totally Connected Media Systems (3354 words)
That is, in order for a biopolitical power to be able to regulate and impel subjects in a particular way, it must organize the bodies (both individual and collective) of subjects in such a way that a managable and functional body of knowledge may be produced from those subjects.
And finally, biopolitics reproduces its continual and changing regulation of the population through another set of techniques and practices which insert this informatic knowledge back through the social-biological body of the population, culminating in a quantifiable, organizational entity which may be "touched" at a variety of points through a range of technologies.
The biopolitics of genomic science is that of an informatics of the population in which cultural issues (ethnicity, cultural diversity) are translated into informational issues (either via a universal, generalized map of the human genome, or via individualized maps of genetic diversity).
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