ABSTRACT
Foucault's notion of individuation as an effect of power and knowledge casts the issue in a somewhat different light. Social agency, both of the power-bloc and of the people, is put to work on the body, for the body is the primary site of social experience. The presence of bodies together, in the same time and space, is where social relationships are grounded; and social relationships are the lived, material experience of those more abstract, structural social relations. The body of the employee must literally be fitted to the costumes provided by the company. Religious discipline which, in its more extreme forms, required total submission of the disciple's body and mind was transferred into the secular domain of academia with a minimum of modification. This strategic power can only be deployed over time in a physical place, whether this is the working day in a corporate headquarters or a university, or the domestic house when the family is at home.
