Attending to what Foucault calls “the disciplinary grid of society,”i Foucault’s project takes up the political uses to which formations of knowledge are put, especially those which result in a range of exclusions, from the tacit to the overt, as when particularly demarcated bodies are subject to internment.

Foucault, Michel. “Truth and Power.” Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings. New York: Pantheon, 1980. 109-133.

i Michel Foucault, “Truth and Power,” 111.