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kostia_gorobets's review against another edition
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
filmsyoushouldbewatching's review
4.0
I thought the eleventh chapter was exciting (especially p. 242).
"...in the seventeenth and eighteen centuries, we saw the emergence of the techniques of power that were essentially centred on the body, on the individual body. They included all devices that were used to ensure the spatial distribution if individual bodies (their separation, their alignment, their serialization, and their surveillance) and the organization, around those individuals, of a whole field of visibility. They were also techniques that could be used to take control over bodies. Attempts were made to increase their productive force through exercise, drill, and so on. They were also techniques for rationalizing and strictly economizing on a power that had to be used in the least costly way possible, thanks to a whole system of surveillance, hierarchies, inspections, bookkeeping, and reports--all the technology that can be described as the disciplinary technology of labour."
"This [new] technology of power [...] does dovetail into it, integrate it, modify it to some extent, and above all, it is by sort of infiltrating it, embedding itself in existing disciplinary techniques."
"...discipline tries to rile a multiplicity of men to the extent that their multiplicity can and must be dissolved into individual bodies that can be kept under surveillance, trained, used, and if need be, punished."
"...in the seventeenth and eighteen centuries, we saw the emergence of the techniques of power that were essentially centred on the body, on the individual body. They included all devices that were used to ensure the spatial distribution if individual bodies (their separation, their alignment, their serialization, and their surveillance) and the organization, around those individuals, of a whole field of visibility. They were also techniques that could be used to take control over bodies. Attempts were made to increase their productive force through exercise, drill, and so on. They were also techniques for rationalizing and strictly economizing on a power that had to be used in the least costly way possible, thanks to a whole system of surveillance, hierarchies, inspections, bookkeeping, and reports--all the technology that can be described as the disciplinary technology of labour."
"This [new] technology of power [...] does dovetail into it, integrate it, modify it to some extent, and above all, it is by sort of infiltrating it, embedding itself in existing disciplinary techniques."
"...discipline tries to rile a multiplicity of men to the extent that their multiplicity can and must be dissolved into individual bodies that can be kept under surveillance, trained, used, and if need be, punished."
isabelabaldini's review against another edition
5.0
acho que é a quinta releitura no ano (não marquei todas no goodreads pra não ficar tão repetitivo)
sara86's review
4.0
i was going to give it 3 stars just because it was a pain to read, and then i thought it's Foucault! as awesome as he could be the guy is difficult to read. i kept reading & re-reading paragraphs & pages to make sure i know what he's talking about :/ but then again this could be partially the translator's fault.
andyogm's review
3.0
Was really only interested in this book as a stepping stone toward Mbembe's work on necropolitics. I don't like Foucault all that much, but this was better to read than some of his other works. Also I still don't understand how socialism can be "racist" against the bourgeoisie lol.
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