1 / 10

Foucault

Foucault. Power and Postmodern?. Modernism Origin of social phenomena/ social development Origin = answer Coherence – what holds things together Continuity – (development over time) . Foucault Rejects origin Perpetuate debate Rejects answer

fala
Download Presentation

Foucault

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Foucault Power and Postmodern?

  2. Modernism Origin of social phenomena/social developmentOrigin = answer Coherence – what holds things together Continuity – (development over time) Foucault Rejects originPerpetuate debateRejects answer Incoherence – what are the internal contradictions Discontinuities (ruptures, reversals, multiple paths) What’s new with Foucault?

  3. Decentering the Subject • What counts as truth is historically and socially defined • Postmodernists want to eliminate the authoritative subject • Analyze what constitutes truth and why

  4. How? • Genealogy • Of the modern subject as historical and cultural reality • Archeology • Of institutions and discourses • A form of history which can account for the constitution of knowledges, discourses, domains of objects, etc….

  5. Panopticon

  6. Panopticon

  7. Foucault • Human sciences are techniques of power • Shape views and behaviors of human subjects • Humans as objects of study • Normality is the standard • Break from Modernism

  8. What does this mean for Power? Power is NOT • Institution or forced subservience(origin is not in the state) • In the form of rule (Laws) • System of domination of one group over another

  9. Instruments of Observation and Control • Panopticon • Heirarchical observation • Disciplinary society • Ways of monitoring • Normalizing judgments(powerful define, everyone internalizes) • Examinations(school, doctor, psychiatrist, performance…)

  10. Capillary system of Power 5 Propositions about Power • Power exercised from innumerable points • Power relations exist within other relations • Power comes from below • Power relations are intentional(not necessarily choice of given individual) • Where there is power, there is resistance

More Related