Communication

Discourse on sexuality seems to have materialized as a way to combat perversions that run counter to social norms without censoring them. Punishment would then work in the same way; the emphasis is placed on acknowledging perceived problems and the disciplines necessary for reform. It strikes me that these reformations, these acts of molding, all focus on the body (even when we're not talking about torture that explicitly focuses on the tangible body) because these bodies can be used as vessels of communication. Perhaps then discipline is so focused on the body because the soul and mind rely on it to exist;

Foucault also mentions that a person is defined by their actions; a person who commits is a crime is defined primarily as a criminal, making the person "faceless." In what way does that facilitate individualism? Is it because disciplinary procedures then need to be so focused on the individual, establishing subjectivity? At first glance, defining a person by only one facet of their personality (for lack of a better word) and thus defining the individual seems almost paradoxical.