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The French philosopher Michel Foucault firstly focused on the notion of "subject" in his journey to produce knowledge, and for this purpose he tried to explain the exclusions (mad, guilty, student, homosexual, etc.), the discourse that produces and reproduces them, the power to which the discourse relates, the knowledge related to power and the truth created by power. But after a while, his thought route has shifted from the concept of the subject to the notion of power. This thinker responds to the question of power, and moreover, of the power relations, instead of answering a question such as what is power. Foucault offers us the transformation of power relations, focusing on the institutions that provide closure. He reveals the historical perspective and a philosophical basis of how is transferred from sovereignty to disciplinary power, from disciplinary power to surviallence society and lastly from surviallence society to the regulatory power (bio-power). Technological developments in capitalism are the main driving force behind such a transformation. So, we should focus on political technology, more precisely power technology, as well as industrial techniques. This paper which argues that power transformations (power technology) aims to analyze and discuss the power in detail in the thought and criticisms of Foucault. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]