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Technologies of the Self What are technologies of the self in Foucault's work? This was a theme he was working on from about say 1978 or so. Broadly speaking it means: 1. A set of techniques and practices that can be deployed to modify or affect the self. 2. These techniques are historically situated within power relations. 3. They can mix one's own knowledge with that of the rule. 4. As with other writing in F. about power, it has a very productive side (producing the self after all) as well as a constraining side.