biopower

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. uncountable
    — The third type of power, biopower, emerges from the eighteenth century onward, and is directed toward populations rather than individual bodies.
  2. Bioenergy. uncountable

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相关词
biopolitics necropower

词源

From bio- + power, calque of French biopouvoir, coined by Michel Foucault.
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