I Had No Idea Freewrite

• “[T]he body is . . . directly involved in a political field; power relations have an immediate hold upon it; they invest it, mark it, train it, torture it, force it to carry out tasks, to perform ceremonies, to emit signs.” (25)
The body equals the economy. This quote is about how the people who have money make the economy do what they want. They might be talking about the body being and indentured servant, or the government.

• “[I]t is largely as a force of production that the body is invested with relations of power and domination; but, on the other hand, its constitution as labour power is possible only if it is caught up in a system of subjection . . . the body becomes a useful force only if it is both a productive body and a subjected body.” (26)
In this quote the body seems to definitely refer to the government, which is being portrayed as useless except when everything falls into place exactly how it is designed, with no margin for error. The beginning of the quote seems to call it corrupt.

• “In the darkest region of the political field the condemned man represents the symmetrical , inverted figure of the king.” (29)
I believe that darkest does not refer to evil, but represents the people who are not heard. The condemned man is the commoner who is not listened to, although he is the one who has actual experience of what the country needs. By “inverted figure of the king”, they are showing how the king is everything the common man is not.