Biopolitics of the Fluid Body: Managing Physiology

The text analyzes the human body through the lens of Michel Foucault's biopolitics, focusing on the administration of bodily fluids. The author argues that modernity does not so much fear physiology as it seeks to strictly control it by designating the time, place, and procedures for the discharge of substances from the organism. Bodily fluids become a point of intersection between disciplinary power (controlling the individual) and biopolitics (managing the population). Sanitary infrastructure plays a dual role: on one hand, it ensures epidemiological safety; on the other, it forces the adaptation of natural biological rhythms to institutional rigors. This analysis reveals the tension between biological autonomy and the systemic drive for predictability of human behavior in public space.