Foucault and Control
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Foucault knew a thing or two about control. So do the rest of us, he would argue, although most of us are trying to ignore the reality of the ways in which we are being controlled and the consequences of such a level of control. Throughout the body of his writings, he is intensely concerned with how the institutions of society create citizens who will work hard both to create profit for others while working just as hard to conform and fit in. He is particularly concerned about the question of control through the state structures of punishment in Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison.Foucault argues in this work that despite the fact that we may like to think of ourselves as more modern and more civilized than citizens (and
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