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Biopower and Genocide. Keaton Lipson. Power and War. Body Politic uses power to enlist Individual body to fit into the social body and impacts all aspects of life Government is a form of Body Politic looking to monitor, delegate and control
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Biopower and Genocide Keaton Lipson
Power and War • Body Politic uses power to enlist Individual body to fit into the social body and impacts all aspects of life • Government is a form of Body Politic looking to monitor, delegate and control • Refers to a continuum, extending from political government right through forms of self-regulation “technologies of the self”
FocaultBioPower • Biopower strongest form of power • A technology of power, it is the way in which a group or government manages people • Biopower is literally having power over bodies
Genocide • Genocide is the most traumatic form of biopower expression while maintaining the body politic • Much more than cultural or political differences. Becomes national, ethnic, and religious war • Similar to contemporary liberal biopolitcs and managing bodies
Nazi Doctors • “Among all war criminals and murders, the most dangerous type is the criminal physician”
Disabled Bodies • “SuperCrip” • Body Politic deemed certain bodies disabled simply by their ethnicity or race • Nuremberg Trials