microtechnique

Definitions

1. The art of preparing objects for examination under a microscope.
2. Any small-scale technique.

Examples

“The prominence of domestic fiction suggests the degree to which such power did not in fact rely⟳ on overtly juridical or economic means so much as on cultural hegemony, that is, on the notion of the family, norms of sexual behavior, the polite use⟳ of language, the regulation of leisure time, and all those microtechniques that constitute the modern subject.”

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