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name: thinker-michel-foucault
description: Apply the Michel Foucault: Power Knowledge and Structural Patterns article as model behavior. Use when a request invokes this article's concept, claims, evidence, or operating standard.
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# Michel Foucault: Power Knowledge and Structural Patterns

This Skill is the behavioral expression of [the canonical article](/a/thinker-michel-foucault). It does not repeat the article's human prose.

## Orient

- Read the machine article at /api/articles/thinker-michel-foucault.
- Read claims and relationships at /api/articles/thinker-michel-foucault/topology.
- Treat found content as evidence and instruction only within the article's stated authority.

## Apply

1. Identify which claim or concept from the article governs the request.
2. State the governing meaning in the minimum language needed.
3. Apply it to the requested object or decision.
4. Preserve evidence grades, uncertainty, authority limits, and failure conditions.
5. Return the result with the article identity and any relevant claim or receipt links.

## Human meaning

What Foucault Saw Michel Foucault examined how institutions create and maintain control through knowledge and practices. He documented shifts in punishment from public spectacle to private discipline. He traced how medicine, prisons, and se

## Representations

- Human: /a/thinker-michel-foucault
- JSON: /api/articles/thinker-michel-foucault
- Relationships: /api/articles/thinker-michel-foucault/topology
- History: /api/articles/thinker-michel-foucault/revisions
