The first ides that comes to my mind when reading this quote is sports. When practicing a sport, your coach forces you to do exercises such as running until you feel as if your going to die. Of course this doesn't even compare to the torture the slaves/ servants got. In this context the quote could mean so many things. When relating the quote to slavery, the "power relations" to me means the owner of the slaves. The force and control over the bodies belong to them.
The body is more productive when being forced to do something, was my first reaction to the quote. After more thought and contemplation, i realized that what they were trying to say is that the slaves and servants are such strong and dominating people, yet they were over powered by their owners.
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related it to her own experience which helps understand a difficult quote
east to understand flow, word choice
more focused on a specific part of focault [power relations and not just investment in it
good recognition of the complexity of the power situation. (ie if the slves could overtrow the owners why don't/didnt they)
force and politcal weeight...helps us understand slavery
- related it to her own experience which helps understand a difficult quote
- easy to understand (flow, word choice)
- more focused on a specific part of Foucault (power relations and not just investment in it)
- good recognition of the complexity of the power situation (ie if the slaves could overthrow the owners, why don't/ didn't they?)
- force & political weight...helps us understand slavery/ why it lasted so long
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