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**2. Social Structures (via Control & Punishment) Enforce Identity* -…

- - - - Soul: Restriction of time and actions
      - Hidden: Prison
    - - Private, therefore Shameful
      - Notions of #abnormal vs normal
      - Ultimately, to make them a docile, compliant and productive member of Society :smiley:
    - - Even if fatal: Guillotine hardly touches the body, executioner's painless drugs
    - - Judgement of motives as well as actions
      - The Judge is not the only one who judges - role for psychiatrists
    - - Surveillance
      - Discipline
      - ...to achieve Normalisation
    - - How? via SELF-POLICING TO NORMATIVE BEHAVIOUR, which DEPENDS ON CONTROL, AND CONTROL HAS BECOME A TECHNOLOGICAL PRACTICE
        
        Lepers were simply driven out and excluded
        
        Panopticon metaphor shows how technology reduces the controller's labour and maximises total conformity by forcing the individual to self-police and self-normalise because they feel always observed
        
        Power + control is now suffused throughout society
        
        Focault: Power produces subjects - continual self-policing produces 'docile bodies, conforming to norms
        
        Plague town house-by-house isolation was labour intensive (continual surveillance + record keeping) with discipline enforced through observation and requirement for normalization
        
        Indoctrinating people to create a 'subject' sense of themself: a patient, a student, a good worker, a deviant
      - Updated by the contemporary Chinese State where panopticism & self-policing has been replaced by digital and decentralized control, so that citizens with unpaid debts can't buy train tickets
      - Not the whole story: bell hooks argues that some individuals resist, or subvert disciplinary norms
      - Simon Browne's "Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness" links panopticism to racialized surveillance
      - Voluntarily, Digitally docile bodies: Zuboff's Age of Surveillance Capitalism says that individuals offer data which effectively self-surveills in order to participate
      - Repression: Power is 'possessed and exercised' (intermittently and laboriously) from above...i.e. could be overthrown when it is located and owned
      - Productive: Power works all the time through creating 'realities': this is what you should know, this is how you should talk, this is what you should be
        
        Societal, normativising power lies in what might have been considered 'neutral institutions which exercise Normative education, medicine, discourse, sexuality, law, management theory, architecture, design from influencers, self-discipline theories of Tony Robbins etc
        
        Control knowledge and you control people: if you dictate the knowledge of who is mentally sound, you control those deemed 'mentally ill'
        
        Greater 'Knowledge' therefore indirectly legitimises power
      - How? DISCOURSE CREATES A REGIME OF TRUTH - a network of ideas and rules and practices that define what can be said, thought or done, glues thoughts and behaviours in place
  - - - Revealing: health/control of one's own body is influenced by economic systems, power imbalances and social structures
        AND
        POWER AND WEALTH INFLUENCE PUBLIC POLICY BY SEEKING TO MAINTAIN THEIR POWER AND WEALTH
        
        And are recruiting more bodies into being economically productive units in society :recycle:
    - - Army
      - Factory
      - School
      - Hospital patients