Power invents phantasms attached to Muslim bodies to control them

Evidence

Biopower—the definition, control, and punishment of the body through power—is a concern voiced repeatedly in Foucault’s work. Muslim monsters are punished bodies. The body is open to all kinds of forces, so much so that it is a site of “perpetual disintegration.” In the case of Muslims, the body has been manipulated in numerous ways. Foucault’s argument that history exercises power on human bodies—and in some cases, invents subjects, including fantasies that are then attached to these bodies, called phantasms—helps us to understand why Muslim fictive bodies remain so powerful. — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 66

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines ‘phantasm’ as a fantasy attached to a body by power — the manufacturing mechanism at the core of the reader’s inquiry.
• XREF: The ‘fantasies attached to bodies’ mechanism is the closest the author comes to naming the manufacture process — connects directly to the reader’s core question of how the image was made, not discovered.