The table below is a preliminary attempt to track Foucault's discussions of technologies of examination across some of his writings from the 1970s.
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Form Under Analysis |
Period |
Associated Mode of Power (Pouvoir) |
Associated Mode of Knowldg (Savoir) |
Subject (Target/Product) |
Problem (to which form is a response) |
Operation (what a mode of power does) |
Techniques & Technologies |
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MF: Test |
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Test (TPS, Ch. 11) |
Antiquity (Greek Antiquity) |
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MF: Inquiry |
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Inquiry (TPS, Ch. 11) |
Late M.A. & Early Mod |
Juridico-Sovereign |
Inquisitorial (determines who, what, where) |
?Soul? ? |
Locating Guilt |
? |
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Inquiry |
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MF: Examination |
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Examination (TPS, Ch. 11) |
Nineteenth Century |
Disciplinary [Power] |
(? revisit) |
Individual |
Mgmt. + control of illegalism (196) |
? |
“Uninterrupted, graduated, and accumulated test” – “recording” |
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Examination (T&JF, IV) |
Nineteenth Century |
Disciplinary [Power] (52)
Panopticism (58) |
Human Sciences |
Individual (as Nrml or AbNml) -Behavior -Potential |
Dangerousness (57) |
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· Panopticon · Records
· Attachment (78) · Correction (67) · Recording (84) · Observation · Classification · Supervision (Surveillance) |
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Examination (DP, III.2, 184ff.) |
Nineteenth century |
Disciplinary Power (187) |
Human Sciences (190) & Disciplinary Knowledge |
Individual (170) - as Body - as Ab/normal - as Case
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Illegalities and Delinquency (257ff.) & ‘infra-penality (178)
Bringing practices and institutions (as well as creating them) into a disciplinary fold that does not require the expense and excess of sovereign power (cf. 126-131) |
Normalization (177)
Objectification (187)
Training (“means of correct training”) … “the chief function of the disciplinary is to ‘train’” (170).
… explicitated as a “productive” mode of power/knowledge (194). |
· Documentation (189), inclusive of disciplinary writing, measure, notation, registration, files, accumulation of data, categorization, calculation · Accountancy (180) · Exercise/Corrective/Repetition (179) |
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