Institutional Relations
Now, the study of this micro-physics presupposes that the power exercised on the body is conceived not as a property, but as a strategy, that its effects of domination are attributed not to "appropriation," but to dispositions, manoeuvres, tactics, techniques, functionings; that one should decipher in it a network of relations, constantly in tension, in activity, rather than a privilege that one might possess; that one should take as its model a perpetual battle rather than a contract regulating a transaction or the conquest of a territory. (Foucault, 1977, p. 26)
Fragment 1
Victoria, Lucy, Taylor, Kirsty, Prasadi, Indiana
01 V: ((questioning look)) okay (0.72) we TALkd about wHAT is enginEERing lAST week DIdnt we.
02 L: uh HM.
03 V: yE[A? ]
04 S: [yea];
05 (0.67)
06 V: toh. (.) to refrESH the MEMry of those PEOple who were aWAY:. (1.22)) ´wHAT isn enginEERng; ´WHO are enginEERs.
07 (0.60)
08 T: <<p>wes>
09 V: ´what TYPe of <
10 K: pi:PL who bUILd stuff and deSIGN stuff.
11 (0.42)
12 V: PI:pl who bUILd stuff and deSIGN stuff; ´BJU:tiful
TAY[lor]?
13 T: [yea] they=re incredibly good looking.
[((grin, then facial expression gloss: "oh, here he goes again," gaze upward, slow lid closing ))
14 (0.20)
15 S: .hh < 16 V: <<p, grinning>we did mention they were incredibly good looking.> 17 P: [uh] they got um think of more efficient ways; to do something,
18 V: ooh i like it (0.22) prasadi said that the more efficient ways of doing something. (0.40) efficient meaning?
19 (1.16)
20 P: betta.
21 V: easia:: betta and? (0.43) quicka (0.20) yes: indiana
22 I: they are RICH: ((grimace))
23 V: they are RI[CH:
24 T: [<<p>they are not that rich>]
25 V: we did [mention ] References Foucault, M. (1977). Discipline and punish: The birth of the prison. New York, NY: Pantheon.
<<laughing> pra(h)sa(.h)di(hh[h)>]
[((someone laughs))]
the topic of stereotyping engineers they are not all incredibly good looking and rich. yes ((points))