Editing Power (social and political) (section)

=== Foucault ===
{{See also|Biopower}}
For [[Michel Foucault]], the real power will always rely on the ignorance of its agents. No single human, group, or actor runs the dispositif (machine or apparatus), but power is dispersed through the apparatus as efficiently and silently as possible, ensuring its agents do whatever is necessary. It is because of this action that power is unlikely to be detected and remains elusive to 'rational' investigation. Foucault quotes a text reputedly written by political economist [[Jean Baptiste Antoine Auget de Montyon]], entitled {{Lang|fr|Recherches et considérations sur la population de la France}} (1778), but turns out to be written by his secretary [[Jean-Baptise Moheau]] (1745–1794), and by emphasizing [[biologist]] [[Jean-Baptiste Lamarck]], who constantly refers to [[milieu]]s as a plural adjective and sees into the milieu as an expression as nothing more than water, air, and light confirming the genus within the milieu, in this case the human species, relates to a function of the population and its social and political interaction in which both form an artificial and natural milieu. This milieu (both artificial and natural) appears as a target of intervention for power, according to Foucault, which is radically different from the previous notions on sovereignty, territory, and disciplinary space interwoven into social and political relations that function as a species (biological species).<ref>Michel Foucault, ''Lectures at the College de France, 1977–78: Security, Territory, Population'', 2007, pp. 1–17.</ref> Foucault originated and developed the concept of "docile bodies" in his book ''[[Discipline and Punish]]''. He writes, "A body is docile that may be subjected, used, transformed and improved.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Discipline and punish : the birth of the prison|author=Foucault, Michel|date=1995|publisher=Vintage Books|isbn=978-0679752554|edition= 2nd  |location=New York}}</ref>