Michel Foucault

- Power is everywhere - it belongs to everyone

- Resistance is everywhere

- Power is productive - Power is what produces ourselves pushes us to become someone

- Interested in how power works on bodies

- Sovereign power - The body of the criminal is controlled and killed by the sovereign

- Biopolitics - Shift from sovereign power - ran through the use of regulations

- Links to the birth of prison - highlights shift in power

- People once they leave prison remain in the regime that they followed

- Model prison

- Involves a central tower in the middle - all seeing

- Only a couple of guards needed - efficient

- Don't know if you're being looked at - forced reform and fix their consensus 

- Dependent on physical placing

- Notion of surveillance - key to gain power

- We live in a society of surveillance - make us docile subjects

- Against the 'Repressive Hypothesis'

- Victorian Ideology - repressive of sex

- Lack of identity - Sexual acts - creating your identity

- Occurred in the 19th Century e.g. Oscar Wilde

- Being held back internally - Repressive, Question/Theory - Hypothesis

- Victorian's have influenced our views of sex

- Provide different forms of sexuality

- ****** - No sexual productivity towards production

- As moderns we see our sexuality as highly important

- Birth of the homosexual - New type of person in Victorian era

- People could use their identity as a form of civil rights

- Literature helps us find out sexuality

- Sexuality is a matter of power and productive production

- Sexuality generates new forms of criminality

- Power is always in conflict - forms of power will always be there

- Sceptical about the notions of power and regime

- Getting free of ourselves - trying to free ourselves from our imposed identity