Foucoult Article

Some more questions:
1. What advancements in thought led to the evolution in punishment "from being an art of unbearable sensations" to "an economy of suspended rights?" (11). In other words, what ideologies must change in order to alter the way one thinks about the administration of effective punishment?

2. Do you agree with Foucoult's statement, "power produces knowledge," as opposed to the idea that knowledge can only be achieved above the confines of the power system? Assuming that he is correct, what sort of implications for the current and future state of the different classes of society does this statement reveal?

3. Which, in your opinion, is more harmful to a human: the simple, physical invasion of the body that characterizes the methods of punismhments of 200 years ago, or the more indirect attacks upon the liberties of the soul that characterize modern day penal systems?