Political Economy’ of the Body

Political Economy’ of the Body

The Quote is saying that “the body” or a slave is forced to work for “Power relations” or their master. Since is was thought the more slaves you had the more power or wealth you had, so the “body” (slaves or workers) were directly involved in the political field. The masters “invest” in their slave labor or “the body” because the want to keep their work force alive and in tip-top shape. The master “marks” their workers so they know that they are a owned piece of property and not a human, the owners wanted the salves to thin that they were animals so that they never questioned why they were forced to work and revolted. The owners train them and force them to carry out tasks while smiling at them.

The second Quote is saying that Domination and forcing the “body” to work and subject them to inhumanities, but also not to the point of malnutrition or exhaustion. Because the slaves need to bebeatin so they think that if they try to revolt that they will be beaten into a bazillion pieces.

The quote is saying that power corrupts man and they are condemned for it because if you’re corrupted then you pretty much are evil. Since he is on his little power trip he would be hatful toward his subjects because once you have power you don’t want to give it up and since slave rebellions were popping up the master would probably scare the crap or torment them so they would not ever thing about rebelling and making him really mad.