heart of life. Once something like eating is death then you have struck at the very heart of life. The enemy of the older radical theories may have been the ruling class, but today the stakes of whether we will reform ourselves into a new kind of human being, a new kind of society, whether we will find selves worth being; the stakes of it are simply life itself and that makes it quite dramatic actually. So that's an example of Foucault's account -- not from him; I made that one up -- Foucault died of aids, he's not still alive unfortunately, so he didn't get a chance to write that one on fat and skinny, but he wrote many others. On the normal and the deviant he was in the process of writing a long book on the history of sexuality and then ironically before he could complete it he died of aids. So the book I have decided to use is his famous work and I'll show it to you and suggest you all read it: " Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison " and I intend to go through the argument in some detail because it would be very much against the spirit of Foucault to give you all the abstractions about his position but not give you the really important points where he works out in detail how these interlocking systems of knowledge and power actually function in his genealogies. That's the real meat