This paper charts the emergence of under-remarked affinities between contemporary anti-aging technoscience and some social scientific work on biological aging. Both have recently sought to develop increasingly sophisticated operationalizations of age, aging and agedness as biological phenomena, in response to traditional notions of normal and chronological aging. Rather than being an interesting coincidence, these affinities indicate the influence of a biopolitics of successful aging on government, industry and social science. This biopolitics construes aging as a personal project that is mastered through specific forms of entrepreneurial individual action, especially consumption practices. Social scientists must remain alert to this biopolitics and its influence on their own work, because the individualization of cumulative inequalities provides intellectual and moral justifications for anti-aging interventions that exploit those inequalities.

本文描绘了当代抗衰老技术科学与一些关于生物衰老的社会科学工作之间出现的被低估的亲和力。两者最近都试图将年龄、衰老和老化作为生物现象的日益复杂的操作化，以响应正常和按时间顺序衰老的传统概念。这些相似之处并不是一个有趣的巧合，而是表明成功老龄化的生命政治对政府、工业和社会科学的影响。这种生命政治将老龄化解释为一个个人项目，它是通过特定形式的企业家个人行动，尤其是消费实践来掌握的。社会科学家必须对这种生命政治及其对他们自己工作的影响保持警惕，