High Hume (Биовласть и биополитика в обществе риска)

We look after the socially conditioned stratification of single process of scientific cognition on two autonomous on the social functions stream:

I. First stream (actually «Risk science»), is coordinate to the general vector of evolution of technogenic civilization – transformation of the world according to ideal appearance of the desirable future. By virtue of the prognostic function the objective, i.e. scientific knowledge comes forward the instrument of realization of such transformations.

II. The second stream of scientific cognition («warning science») is intended for an exposure and calculation of risks, generated by «scientific and technical progress», i.e. by «dangerous knowledge».

A bio-policy is in the system of globalization. Bio-power (true or virtual) becomes the element of global geopolitical strategy. Bio-policy on the whole – as a method of realization of bio-power can be attributed to one of three types-strategies:

4. liberal strategy is maximal limitation of purview direct (administrative, legal, political) compulsion, predominance of self-organizational processes, based on the acts of the free informed choice;
5. repressive strategy is direct prohibition on sending of certain modes of realization of biological functions. The enough powerful (but not necessarily effective) vehicle of control supposes a presence;
6. resticortum-normative strategy is limitation and government control of those модусов of realization of biological functions at individual and group level, which are beyond an ethics norm, that possible in the society. Carried out relatively «soft» a way is forming of the proper legal environment and economic state of affairs (system of taxation, prohibition of the state financing, licensing system et cetera).

In the different spheres of bio-policy different strategies of bio-power are used (depending on space-temporal localization, socio-cultural and socio-political tradition, historical experience, etc.

Liberal bio-political strategy is not equivalent weakening of bio-power as such. In this case there is a redistribution of relative weight between two mechanisms of realization of bio-power - to the lines (administrative power, right) and unlines (ethics norms, public opinion, advertising and other forms manipulation consciousness, etc).

Consequently, in a clean kind such strategy appears effective in the developed civil society at presence of the already formed dominant system of ethics priorities and in relation to quiet rates of changes – in absence sharp social conflicts, sharp political turns. Otherwise at insufficient power of mechanisms of socio-political homoeostasis the liberal model of bio-power in the field of modern bio-, mental and social technologies becomes the additional source of risk and can come forward as powerful enough attractor, in itself braking or doing impossible process of forming of civil society.