As is well known, Foucault’s writings on power explain the different ways diffuse knowledge practices made objects, individuals, and populations available for regulation. Beginning in the seventeenth century, disciplinary power, the governing logic of institutions like prisons, clinics, and schools, worked on individual and collective bodies through continual observation, policing, and training (Foucault 1977; 2007 ). Foucault ( 1990: 139) described discipline as “an anatomo-politics of the human body ” that treated “the body as a machine.” - Joshua Barkan, Corporation as Disciplinary Institution