The disappearance of torture as a public spectacle, Foucault claims that punishments that touched the body were no longer in practice but, punishment was now aimed at the soul. For example, the trials and sentences that are supposed to improve humans. Foucault goes into adding how penalty targeted the soul, judgments targeted the motives of humans, and offenses were targeting scientific knowledge. “The body now serves as an instrument or intermediary: If one intervenes upon it to imprison it, or to make it work, it is in order to deprive the individual of a liberty that is regarded both as a right and as a property.” The body is now out of the question to punish, Foucault explains that in order to reach something other than the physical body, it would be through imprisonment, confinement, deportation, and prohibition from entering in certain areas (pedophiles?) but, the body will be affected by punishment because, according to Foucault, we cannot escape a corporal punishment. To further his argument, he elaborates on how the body is used as a political technology and the body as an object to be used for others, he believes that there is a connection between the sound and punishments due to the fact that the soul can allow for new possibilities. The soul acting as a prison itself because is now in control of the sciences, specially in medicine (perhaps doctors, psychiatric, me medical field?). In the spectacle of the scaffold, Foucault mentions that an audience must exist in order for a an execution to appear, it establishes order, he sees them as economies of power. Torture and executions are a communal system with a truth-power relation through the body of the condemned as punishment mechanism. Girard on The Scapegoat, is offering a way of listing the stereotypes of persecution, for example, distinctions are necessary to maintain social order; the victim; as well as accusations made against victims and those existing outside the system. The signs of the victims, and the systems complex differences (foreigners) may become objects of persecution, for example, the attack on the Jews in the Black Death as he mentions in the book.
Taylor affirms in her book that much of the history of Argentina became a product of nation-ness and gender. Authoritarianism, audiences, and state terrorism and the practices against “the other” along with performance, are necessary in the oppression of women. A connection exists between gender and nation, that is, they become a product of performance “doing one nation-ness/gender correctly promises privilege and a sense of belonging, yet involves coercive mechanisms of identification” Taylor says on pg 92. This public spectacle is part of a performance style in constructing national identity, political actors persuade their audiences through seduction, leader use this power dynamics as Taylor calls it, the patriarchal view. I find that it was masculinity to the main performer throughout the history of Argentina with the feminicides, something that is prevalent in Mexico, too.