Definition
The imposition of a subject's conditions of action through institutionally organised exposures that enter cellular, hormonal, and neural regulation.
HAKKI TAN · REALITY PARADIGM · HT–14
Cytopolitics
The imposition of a subject's conditions of action through institutionally organised exposures that enter cellular, hormonal, and neural regulation.
“When the conditions that produce and sustain addiction are institutionally imposed, addiction is a cytopolitic imposition.”
CANONICAL DEFINITIONHT–14
What is Cytopolitics?
Cytopolitics is Hakkı Tan's concept for the imposition of a subject's conditions of action through institutionally organised exposures that enter cellular, hormonal, and neural regulation. It explains how addiction can be produced and sustained, the bodily cost of switching or refusal can rise, and the resulting behaviour can then be recorded as individual choice.
Analytical question
How do institutionally organised exposures become political when they enter bodily regulation, raise the cost of refusal, and later appear as individual choice?
Conceptual boundary
Cytopolitics is not biopolitics renamed at a cellular scale, nor a claim that biology abolishes agency. It identifies a harder break: institutions can organise the exposure conditions through which bodily regulation, addiction, and the practical capacity to refuse are produced together.
Place in the research programme
It joins the Reality Paradigm's prior field, the Onopticon's infrastructural imposition, Homovictimus's encircled agency, and Metabolic Ambush at the cellular–hormonal ground where exposure becomes embodied constraint.
RELATED TERMS AND FORMS
CytopoliticsCytopolitic powerCytopolitic impositionCytopolitic Dayatma
SUGGESTED CITATION
Tan, Hakkı. “Cytopolitics.” Hakkitan.org — Hakkı Tan Research Archive, 2026. https://hakkitan.org/concepts/cytopoliticshttps://hakkitan.org/concepts/cytopolitics