Foucault's biopolitics
For Foucault, biopolitics represents a modern political regime in which the state frames all of its actions as ensuring the health of society, which includes protecting society from threats to that health emanating from either inside or outside its own population. He suggests that a biopolitical regime imagines society as a living organism, the health of which depends upon fostering the productive actors within it while excluding the infectious potential of those who are unproductive or, even worse, counter-productive. As such, the state must defend society from being infected by these unproductive and counter-productive elements, which must be ‘banished, excluded, and repressed’ in order to keep the organism of society healthy.