Biopolitics and Necropolitics

• The mechanisms and systems in an institution which have a significant impact in our lives which reflect a broader systematic control

  Biopolitics
• Panopticon concept depicts how surveillance works in an institutions such as prison and hospitals. Causing people to watch and monitor themselves.
• It is the capacity to exercise power over life

  • Which results to establishment of societal norms regarding health and physical attributes

  Biopower
• What transition has been made that results to understanding of human body and establishment of societal norms?

  Mystical explanation to scientific approach
• What's the shift that had happened?

  Anatomy politics to biopolitics
• Biopolitics is closely related to?

  Liberalism
• Biopolitics is closely related to liberalism which seeks to minimize control and maximize productivity and influence over bodies.
• Biopolitics justifies certain deaths and exclusions based on deviation from societal norms
• These two have historical ties with biopolitics:

  1. State Racism
  2. Normative Social Standards
• It is the tactics and strategies used by the states to eliminate or put an end to certain population with minimal resistance 

  Necropolitics
• Blacks and indigenous experience what a state of bare life making them?

  Expandable
• Necropolitics can be traced back to these two:

  1. Colonial times
  2. Legacy of slavery
• A state of nothingness makes people vulnerable to

  • Violence
  • Dehumanization
• Necropolitics creates death worlds where death and suffering prevails
• Necropolitics uses these two to dictate how someone must live and die

  Social and political power
• Who created the state apparatus?

  Louis Althusser
• What are the two types of state apparatus?

  Repressive and Ideological
• Repressive State Apparatus includes

  • Government
  • Administrators
  • Army and policy
  • Court and Prison
• Ideological state Apparatus includes:

  • Church and School
  • Family, culture, and Trade union
  • Communication (Press, Radio, Tv, etc)
• It function first by ideology, then by repressing it secured by ideology of the ruling class

  Ideological State Apparatus
• It function by violence, imposing punishment and privation in order to enfore power

  Repressive State Apparatus