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Post-structuralism

Post-structuralism. Structuralism as constructive not destructive Post-structuralism as deconstruction Meanings are unstable, changing and contextual Impossible to construct laws of interaction and social order . Foucault. Inputs of Power/knowledge—Nietzsche

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Post-structuralism

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  1. Post-structuralism • Structuralism as constructive not destructive • Post-structuralism as deconstruction • Meanings are unstable, changing and contextual • Impossible to construct laws of interaction and social order

  2. Foucault • Inputs of • Power/knowledge—Nietzsche • Structuralism—but no formal rules • Marx—with a range of institutions • Weber– rationalism • Phenomenolgy—search for meaning

  3. Foucault • Discourse—the sum of action and language and interaction • Genealogy—looking beneath convention to see real interactions • “History of the present”

  4. Foucault • Concerned with the generation of power • Knowledge as key to gaining and maintaining power • Constitution of people as subjects • Control people by controlling knowledge • Not a conspiracy of knowledge hierarchy but unconscious structure of action

  5. Foucault • History lurches from one system of knowledge (and domination0 to another • Internalized control by socialization is repressive • The “gaze” • How we view structures and the language used determine the mode and the measure of domination

  6. Foucault • Medicine as an example • We see health and illness in concepts of normal and pathological • Diseases are named—people are separated into normal deviant(sick) • Society controls through this difference

  7. Foucault • Knowledge and power imply each other • As the world has gotten more rational the system of controls have gotten more rational and linguistic • Punishment has gone from torture to humane surveillance

  8. Foucault • Discipline as internalized • New mode of subjugation is knowledge • Society controls through self-control and ideas/language

  9. Summation • There is always resistance to the “iron cage” (Weber) • Rationalism can only reach so far and does not and cannot completely control society • Cult of the individual may be the end stage of humanity—opportunity and curse • No formal rule governed model of behavior

  10. Summation • Knowledge is power • Archeology and geneology as methods of discovery of knowledge • Discourse • Combat knowledge and power deficits with more knowledge (regain power) • Knowledge as key to resisting domination

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