# Discipline, Power, and Government

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Foucault analyzes power as operating through everyday techniques that organize bodies, spaces, records, and norms, not only through law or sovereign commands. His later lectures broaden this into governmentality: ways of directing conduct across institutions, populations, and self-management.

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