ABSTRACT
Everyday, in myriad ways, the modem European state invites its citizens to subject themselves to its administrative power. There is virtually no activity in daily life that is not touched by the state's constant requests for information. In subjecting themselves to the routines of state administrative power, modem citizens soon grow accustomed to defining themselves within the categories the state uses to regulate them and their relations with each other. Each citizen's sense of her/himself as a unique individual comes, imperceptibly, to be shaped by the methods and techniques the state uses to shape its administration of the social body as a whole and the social bodies within that whole (Foucault 1965, 1973, 1975a, 1975b).
