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Michel Foucault

“Exercise is the technique by which one imposes on the body tasks that are both repetitive and different, but always graduated. By bending behavior towards a terminal state, exercise makes possible a perpetual characterization of the individual...It thus assures, in the form of continuity and constraint, a growth, an observation, a qualification.”

Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel Foucault
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