Foucault uses "biopower" to describe a form of "productive, diffuse, sprawling power" (68)
"This power no longer plays the role of a coercive law through a negative mandate but is more versatile and welcoming, taking on the form of 'an art of governing life,' an overall political technology that is transformed into disciplinary architectures (prisons, barracks, schools, hospitals, etc.), scientific texts, statistical tables, demographic calculations, how-to manuals, usage guidelines, schedules for the regulation of reproduction, and public health projects."