![]() ![]() While Foucault and Alexander differ on this point, they share an interpretation of how power is implemented on the everyday level, including the transformation of bodies into instruments of efficiency through punishment and surveillance.įoucault writes about society’s power structure as a sort of conspiracy towards efficiency. To Foucault, power seems to exist more for its’ own sake: an ingrained function of humanity wherein everyone partakes the opportunity to assign “delinquency” to another. ![]() ![]() In Foucault’s case, power does not take the form of a hierarchical structure of a controlling group and a victimized group. While Alexander does allude to power as a distributed force in society, it is a force that is contingent on a driving ideology: racial prejudice. In other words, to both Foucault and (to a lesser extent) Alexander, power lacks a concentrated focal point and is instead pervasive in society. Both Alexander and Foucault admit to a dispersion of power across all social institutions and exchanges. Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow and Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish both outline the power structure surrounding crime and punishment in society over the course of history. ![]()
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