Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality: Key Passages

“Foucault, Discipline and Punish: 'Hence the major effect of the Panopticon: to induce in the inmate a state of conscious and permanent visibility that assures the automatic functioning of power. So to arrange things that the surveillance is permanent in its effects, even if it is discontinuous in its action... that the inmates should be caught up in a power situation of which they are themselves the bearers.' [...] On disciplinary power: 'Discipline makes individuals. It is the specific technique of a power that regards individuals both as objects and as instruments of its exercise.' [...] Foucault, History of Sexuality Vol. 1: 'For the first time in history... biological existence was reflected in political existence... power to expose a whole population to death was the reverse side of the power to guarantee an individual's continued existence... Biopower was an indispensable element in the development of capitalism.' [...] On power/knowledge: 'We should not think of power as a phenomenon of mass and homogeneous domination, the domination of one individual over others, of one group over others... Power must be analyzed as something that circulates, or rather, as something that only functions in the form of a chain.' — Foucault, Discipline and Punish (1975); History of Sexuality Vol. 1 (1976); SEP 'Michel Foucault'; foucault.info 'Panopticism'”