Warner 156: "Foucault's relation to the public/private distinction still awaits systematic treatment as far as I can tell"
however, Warne concludes that Madness and Civilization, Discipline and Punish, and The History of Sexuality, taken together, form a "thorough assault" on the idea that "private life [can serve] as a realm of freedom distinct from sate power"
For Foucault, "the modern order requires relations of power that saturate civil society and the most intimate dimensions of personhood. The very private life thought to be the locus of freedom and rights [are] instead the laboratory of a regulatory order"