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Three Modes Of Subjectification
- Foucault lists three modes of subjectification: scientific classification, division, and institutional subsumption.
- Institutions like medicine or education make people live under predefined identities rather than raw bodily desires.
Power Is Diffuse, Not Sovereign
- Power in modernity is diffuse and distributed, not located in a single sovereign figure.
- This multiplicity of power realities opens new spaces for varied forms of resistance.
Knowledge Can Prepare Institutional Control
- Foucault treats expanding vocabularies (e.g., new psychiatric categories) with suspicion because they can prepare people for institutional control.
- Naming ailments sometimes funnels people into institutions that punish or normalize them.