Michel Foucault's writing is "central to much current work in the humanities and the social science" (223). Foucault argued persuasively that we as people need to give up thinking about knowledge as individually produced. As an author, Foucault strongly encourages readers to stop thinking about him or any other author or genius the way we do, thinking that there were truths that stood beyond the interests of a given moment. .
Foucault stated "it is both dangerous and wrong, he argued, to assume that knowledge is disinterested" (224). "In this book, Foucault is concerned with the relationships between knowledge and power, arguing that knowledge is not pure and abstract but is implicated in networks of power relations". (224) Michel Foucault argument on panopticism is a very confusing one. As is understood, Panopticism is a system enacted in the seventeenth century to control the spread of plague. .
It worked like a "system of surveillance" (254). Foucault's goes on to compare "rituals of exclusion" used to control lepers, to the modern day relations of power and knowledge. Foucault states "The exile of leper and arrest of the plague do not bring with them the same political dream" (228). Meaning that the comparison of the two components, .
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power and Knowledge, did not work out as well as the lepers and arrest. Modern day, power and knowledge are being somewhat abused by those who posses to much of either. Unlike lepers and arrest, power and knowledge can't be controlled and or be disciplinary methods for anything. .
Foucault stats "The extension of disciplinary methods inscribed in a broad historical process" (254). In writing a difficult type of history, in which he some he sometimes call genealogy, he did not make use of the usual form of historical narratives such as characters, plots scenes, and action. Foucault states "On the whole, therefore, one can speak of the formations of a disciplinary society in this movement that stretches the enclosed disciplines, a sort of social "quarantine", to an indefinitely generalizible mechanism of panopticism" (254).
