BIOPOLITICS TODAY.

In political theory biopolitics is a term that denotes a qualitative shift in politics in which life becomes the central object of its interest. However simple the assumption is, in practice the shift has many consequences that escape the usual categorization and examination. Moreover, the answer to the question 'what is the biopolitical?' constantly evolves, which means that biopolitics today is not the same biopolitics that we saw thirty or forty years ago. Furthermore, studies indicate that biopolitics is a concept that is highly dependent on the culture within which it is practiced. All of this together makes biopolitics a phenomenon that requires constant attention, elaboration and study. The aim of this article is to summarize the main areas of research on biopolitics, present the main contemporary biopolitical dilemmas and to propose few authorial categories that may be useful for further studies within the field. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]