Talk:Biopolitics

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[edit] Politics and the Life Sciences

I don't understand the section on Politics and the life science - this has nothing at all to do with biopolitics and is in fact advertisement for university courses. It should be deleted. Willarge (talk) 11:44, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

I disagree. Although this section should be written in such a way that it does not come across as an adverstisement, the fact that there are university courses on biopolitics is noteworthy. --Loremaster (talk) 13:58, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
Courses on Foucaultian biopolitical theory would indeed be noteworthy, but it is implied (at least for me) that the courses are 'biopolitical' only in that they analyse the relationship between politics and biology, which doesn't seem at all to be notable. Or maybe I got it wrong. (If so, then it should probably be reworded....) 216.45.231.50 (talk) 17:40, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
This article is about many topics that covered by the word “biopolitical” and is not limited to the Foucaultian definition of the term. --Loremaster (talk) 15:42, 4 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Term biopolitic

Are you sure that it has been coined by Foucault? --87.6.25.102 (talk) 20:16, 11 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes. It even say so in the Wikipedia article on Michel Foucault in the Terminology section. Are you aware of a source that predates Foucault? --Loremaster (talk) 20:20, 11 April 2008 (UTC)