biopower

As nouns the difference between biopower and biomedicine

is that biopower is (michel foucault) a political technology for managing entire populations as a group, essential to modern capitalism etc, contrasting with traditional modes of power based on the threat of death from a sovereign while biomedicine is the application of biology and physiology to clinical medicine.

As nouns the difference between governmentality and biopower

is that governmentality is the organized practices (mentalities, rationalities, and techniques) through which subjects are governed and influenced while biopower is a political technology for managing entire populations as a group, essential to modern capitalism etc., contrasting with traditional modes of power based on the threat of death from a sovereign.

As nouns the difference between taxonomy and biopower

is that taxonomy is the science or the technique used to make a classification while biopower is (michel foucault) a political technology for managing entire populations as a group, essential to modern capitalism etc, contrasting with traditional modes of power based on the threat of death from a sovereign.

In michel foucault terms the difference between biopower and biopolitics

is that biopower is a political technology for managing entire populations as a group, essential to modern capitalism etc., contrasting with traditional modes of power based on the threat of death from a sovereign while biopolitics is the style of government that regulates populations through biopower.

As nouns the difference between sovereign and biopower

is that sovereign is a monarch; the ruler of a country while biopower is a political technology for managing entire populations as a group, essential to modern capitalism etc., contrasting with traditional modes of power based on the threat of death from a sovereign.

As an adjective sovereign

is exercising power of rule.

As an adjective traditional

is of or pertaining to tradition; derived from tradition; communicated from ancestors to descendants by word only; transmitted from age to age without writing; as, traditional opinions; traditional customs; traditional expositions of the scriptures.

As a noun biopower is

(michel foucault) a political technology for managing entire populations as a group, essential to modern capitalism etc, contrasting with traditional modes of power based on the threat of death from a sovereign.

As nouns the difference between capitalism and biopower

is that capitalism is (politics|uncountable) a socio-economic system based on private property rights, including the private ownership of resources or capital, with economic decisions made largely through the operation of a market unregulated by the state while biopower is (michel foucault) a political technology for managing entire populations as a group, essential to modern capitalism etc, contrasting with traditional modes of power based on the threat of death from a sovereign.

As nouns the difference between population and biopower

is that population is population while biopower is (michel foucault) a political technology for managing entire populations as a group, essential to modern capitalism etc, contrasting with traditional modes of power based on the threat of death from a sovereign.

As nouns the difference between technology and biopower

is that technology is (uncountable) the organization of knowledge for practical purposes while biopower is (michel foucault) a political technology for managing entire populations as a group, essential to modern capitalism etc, contrasting with traditional modes of power based on the threat of death from a sovereign.