Eternal Femininity and the Greatness of Biopower

Exploitation of Femininity in Biopolitics

Biopolitics exploits men with equal success: some, driven by the urge to climb as high as possible on the career ladder, strike bargains with their conscience, integrating themselves into the dense schedule of multidimensional propaganda broadcast through mass media, business, politics, and diplomacy; others become, quite literally, soldiers of biopolitics, sustaining the military doctrine and forming a combat-ready state army. For the first, there are social events, fashionable wardrobes, publicity, and recognition; for the second, full equipment, the right to carry—and, of course, to use—weapons: the highest function of rigidly enforcing public order.

Yet without women, the organism of the biopolitical hierarchy is so incomplete as to be unfit for existence. For biopoliticians, women are air itself—a historical counterpoint to centuries-long plans and a natural source of reproducing a compliant population.

The exploitation of women’s rights and bodies is carried out by biopower gradually and covertly, under the guise of equal access to modernity. On paper, the female part of the population is granted participation in all the benefits of the contemporary world: technology, numerous forms of self-expression (from fashion to professional achievement), social life, and education in any chosen field.

In reality, through technology, power broadcasts the allure of seeking a financially secure or, at the very least, masculine (genetically viable) partner, fostering harmonious relationships whose derivatives will be the traditional home, family, and children. Technology is also essential for the feminine segment of society to recreate and artificially sustain beauty: with doses of popular bioactive supplements and filler injections, biopower infuses the female identity with the idea of necessary conformity to the canons of the time and fashion, denying the realities of natural aging. The pharmaceutical industry forms a solid alliance with biopower in maintaining control over women⁵.

Self-expression in a biopolitical reality becomes a cycle of repetition and mass reinforcement of the image of the eternally young, eternally successful, and eternally fertile woman—one who manages to realize her “self” in every sphere of life, paying particular attention to the concept of self-worth not only as a successful unit of career elevation but also as one who fully embodies the maternal archetype¹. This pseudo-grandeur of womanhood seems to be a trend unto itself, capable of setting trends for all the rest.

Woman is the natural womb of the state

The reproductive system of both men and women, by the tacit decision of biopoliticians, is arranged in the same way—designed for male gratification. The female system of life reproduction is nothing more than a temporary holding point for new lives before their release onto the biopolitical conveyor belt as plump, rosy-cheeked infants—the pride and glory of the titular nation.

Through the instruments of politics, the womb is transplanted and embedded into the body of the state organism, which produces ideologically perfect citizens in an unceasing cycle. Once past the thresholds of maturation, these citizens will create a wondrous and “naturally” structured society of male politicians and soldiers, and women as decorative figures and birthing vessels of the regime.

The model of the living, physiological womb of the state in the world of hybrid truths will serve as the prototype for the creation of the artificial womb. Technological polyclinical complexes will house rows of beautiful, almost miraculous, next-generation wombs, within which, under precisely calibrated and simulated environmental conditions, sturdy infants will grow. Technologies of the hybrid world will see their small bodies through to puberty. Their young heads will be chipped in the image and likeness of the political design. When the bright light of the first world they see blinds their innocent eyes, they will quickly blink it away and learn to live in full accordance with the factory settings of their creators.

In transplanting the womb into the body of the regime, biopolitics will resort to the maneuvers of necropolitics and, with the aid of the most advanced technologies, will determine who will live and how, when and for how much they will die⁷.
Through the implementation of conveyor-belt reproduction, the biopolitical regime will confidently and unhesitatingly divide the society under its control into classes according to financial and economic viability, professional classification, and legal origin—separating the “necessary” from the “dispensable.” At the core of this division will be someone’s exceptional life; beyond it, later revealed, will lie someone’s excluded, unnoticed, unwanted life.

Femininity is the ideal space for exploitation

The female body and femininity are ideal spaces for manipulation and for playing upon public consciousness. Biopower enacts its political fetishes through female corporeality. The womb is a source of control for power—its solid foundation—upon which entire eras of surveillance and open dictatorship will be built.

Images of women have been an inexhaustible source of inspiration for biopoliticians since the dawn of time: goddesses of fertility, goddesses of justice in the pre-Christian era; the image of the belle dame in the courtly tradition; the Immaculately Conceived Virgin in Christian religion; the Motherland figure at the core of totalitarian ideology; the image of the comrade-in-arms in wars “for the conscience of the nation”; the self-made woman, the successful mother, and the eternally young lover versed in the arts of biohacking. The use of female imagery is a constant in the ideological heritage of every era. The exaltation of femininity is a convergent manipulation of biopower in which, on the one hand—theoretical—woman is an invaluable gift, and on the other—practical—she is a renewable resource, treated by the system with utilitarian calculation.

“The state has invaded our bed. In this country and in all these countries. The state sought, found, and conquered”².
The bed is the regime’s last refuge. Cautiously infiltrating the zone of personal intimacy, seizing the sensual and the sacred, power alters the duet of two. It replaces the score of their sensual étude with the mechanistic part of a dictatorial narrative. Into the melody of the improvisation—the miracle of creating new life—the marching tempo of state demographic programs bursts shamelessly.

We are taken from ourselves: through our partners, through our children—born and yet unborn, those who have never seen the light. The delicate, intricately woven cambric of lives, with its lace of interlaced fates, rises and falls, only to be replaced by coarse, almost military-grade cloth, which crowds of believers in the regime will receive in equal lengths—standing in numbered lines for the “benefits” of the biostate’s social program to “improve the quality of life” for a population permanently encoded by biopower.