Thus, rather than tracking “substitutions, displacements, disguised conquests, and systematic reversals” played out as “a series of subjugations” on the body “as the inscribed surface of events” — exemplified in his genealogies of sexuality, punishment, and madness and formulated methodologically in “Nietzsche, Genealogy, History” — Foucault offers a quieter, less complete biographical, historical, geopolitical story of the emergence and dissemination of neoliberal reason.

Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, loc. 90