bio-technico-power (or bio-power)

a distinction that is black and white so that things are thought of as only one way or the other. "Power is essentially what dictates its law to sex.  Which means first of all that sex is placed by power in a binary system: licit and illicit, permitted and forbidden." (The History of Sexuality, p.83). Bio-power emerged as a coherent political technology in the seventeenth century. It has two poles or components. First is the pole of scientific categories of human beings (think of species, population, race, gender, sexual practices, etc.). This pole is tied to the practice of confession. The second pole is disciplinary power  (which he analyzes in Discipline and Punish, chapter 7).