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Philosophy · 19 min

Discipline & Punish

By Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault's 'Discipline & Punish' reveals how modern power operates not through overt spectacle, but through subtle, pervasive disciplinary mechanisms embedded in institutions, shaping individuals into 'docile bodies' via surveillance and normalization.

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“Michel Foucault's 'Discipline & Punish' reveals how modern power operates not through overt spectacle, but through subtle, pervasive disciplinary mechanisms embedded in institutions, shaping individuals into 'docile bodies' via surveillance and normalization.”

— Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish

What it is about

power dynamics, surveillance, panopticism

Who it is for

Best suited to listeners who want a clearer working understanding of power dynamics, surveillance, panopticism and better judgment in how they apply it.

The author

Michel Foucault brings a credible and useful lens to power dynamics, surveillance, panopticism, with enough subject command to make the book worth hearing.

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Michel Foucault

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