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Institutions, confinement and power relations: methodological issues in the thought of Michel Foucault

The article is a discussion on the analysis of institutions from the thought of Michel Foucault. One goal is to interrogate the claim that Foucault's disciplinary mechanisms defined as restricted to confinement in some institutions. The aim is to point out that power relations were not owned by an institution or just restricted to the state. The aim is to think how the biopolitical technologies also surpass the state level by governments and operate the pipeline through the joints and compositions and unfixed in an essential entity. Another point addressed is the questioning conducted by Foucault's vision of power as repression and mass operated by the institutions. Ends pointing to the central concern of Foucault, namely the analysis of practices and not institutions.

analysis of institutions; Michel Foucault; power relations


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