"Unlike the soul represented by Christian theology," writes Foucault, the modern individual "is not born in sin and subject to punishment, but is born rather out of methods of... constraint" (29)... society exercise[s] "a power of normalization" (308)... As a power of normalization, exclusion reigns through all those institutions that we may associate with inclusionary civilization... they all shape "normal" citizens with "normal" knowledge, values, and practices, and thereby either assimilate or eject the "ab-normal" other. The modern self, claims Foucault..., is indirectly constituted through the exclusion of the other (Foucault 1988b, 146).

This note was recorded by Joshua Neds-Fox from page 62 of Exclusion and Embrace.