Foucault’s understanding of the relationship between power, knowledge, and body

Foucault’s understanding of the relationship between power, knowledge, and body

Please discuss Foucault’s understanding of the relationship between power, knowledge, and body and discuss the ways in which his understanding of this relationship is employed in the

following three articles to construct their respective arguments..

Rabinow, in his discussion of Foucault explains that ?The aim of disciplinary technology, whatever its institutional form ?and it arose in a large number of different settings, such as workshops,

schools, prisons, and hospitals ?is to forge a ?docile body that may be subjected, used, transformed and improved. This is done several related ways: through drills and training of the body,

through standardization of action over time, and through control of space. Discipline proceeds from an organization of individual space, and it requires a specific enclosure of space. Once

established, this grid permits the sure distribution of the individuals who are to be disciplined and supervised. In a factory, the procedure facilitates productivity; in a school, it assures orderly

behavior; in a town, it reduces the risk of dangerous crowd, wondering vagabonds, or epidemic diseases? (The Foucault Reader, 17).

Please discuss Foucault?s understanding of the relationship between power, knowledge, and body (you do not have to limit yourself to the above quote), and discuss the ways in which his

understanding of this relationship is employed in the following three articles to construct their respective arguments.

*Please use ONE of these articles below for citation.*
Choose one of these articles to work with in your essay. (You may choose to work with more than one article.)
R. Procter, ?The Destruction of Lives Not Worth Living?,
T. Lomawaima, ?Domesticity in the Federal Indian Schools? and, L. Rhodes, ?Supermax as a Technology of Punishment.?

Discuss how each article shows that Foucault’s concepts of ?biopower? and that ?the art of government? enable power to exert social control at the level of both the body and the population.

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