Specifically, Malthus is interested

Specifically, Malthus is interested in the way that human reproduction can lead to overpopulation and to general human misery. As Gallagher writes, “The healthy, and consequently reproducing, body thus is the harbinger of the disordered societyfull of starving bodies”. By shattering the homology between individual bodies and the population in general, Malthus defines the human body as a special object around which any economy must be organized: “Completely untranscendable, the body is thus absolutely problematic. For a body that could and should be overcome would provide its own means of the displacement from the center of social discourse. Absolute problematization, thus, relies on complete valorization”.