biopolitical

Adjective

biopolitical (comparative more biopolitical, superlative most biopolitical)

1. Of or pertaining to biopolitics.
   • Foucault argued in several works in the mid-1970s that one cannot understand the passage from the “sovereign” state of the ancien régime to the modern “disciplinary” state without taking into account how the biopolitical context was progressively put at the service of capitalist accumulation […]2000, Michael Hardt, Antonio Negri, Empire, Harvard University Press, →OCLC, page 27
   • They [Hardt & Negri] write of a “biopolitical” revolution—one that will transform every aspect of life. “The flesh of the multitude,” they say, “is an elemental power.” It will act like some immense bio-organism, restructuring the body politic.2004 August 7, Edward Rothstein, “For Radical Visionaries, the Evil Empire Is Us”, in The New York Times, →ISSN