“DOCILE BODIES”

Chapter Argument: Disciplinary power produces reality in the form of docile bodies.

1. Use quotes from the text to define the concept: “docile body” (136)
2. How were disciplinary methods different from other “formulas of domination”:         From slavery? From service? From vassalage? From asceticism? (137).
3. What do the disciplines produce? How is disciplinary coercion different from economic exploitation? (138)

“THE MEANS OF CORRECT TRAINING”

Chapter Argument: “The success of disciplinary power derives no doubt from the use of simple instruments;

[i] hierarchical observation,

[ii] normalizing judgment and

[iii] their combination in a procedure that is specific to it, the examination.”

4. Use Foucault’s framework analyze a scene from the assigned film(Assigned film: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest)