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the body and its forces, their utility and their docility, their distribution and their submission.
Michel Foucault, Alan Sheridan (Translator) • Discipline and Punish
Michel Foucault (1926–1984) was a French philosopher, historian, and social theorist, widely known for his critical studies of institutions, knowledge, power, and discourse. His work continues to influence disciplines like philosophy, sociology, history, cultural studies, gender studies, and political science.
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But the body is also directly involved in a political field; power relations have an immediate hold upon it; they invest it, mark it, train it, torture it, force it to carry out tasks, to perform ceremonies, to emit signs.
Michel Foucault, Alan Sheridan (Translator) • Discipline and Punish
Those who carry out the penalty tend to become an autonomous sector; justice is relieved of responsibility for it by a bureaucratic concealment of the penalty itself.
Michel Foucault, Alan Sheridan (Translator) • Discipline and Punish
The guillotine takes life almost without touching the body, just as prison deprives of liberty or a fine reduces wealth. It is intended to apply the law not so much to a real body capable of feeling pain as to a juridical subject, the possessor, among other rights, of the right to exist. It had to have the abstraction of the law itself.