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Transcript of Foucault: Discipline & Punish *Remember: Foucault is critiquing philosopies that emerged during the...
Foucault: Discipline & Punish
*Remember: Foucault is critiquing philosopies that emerged during the industrial revolution & enlightenment periods about
social organization.
He is commenting on HOW power works, which he finds problematic….
Building upon Bentham…
How discourse of the classical period fosters social control…
Pan = all
Optic = seeing
Foucault explores HOW the state came to claim greater control over and enforcement of the private aspects of it’s citizens lives.
Power…
Concept of Governmentality
•Non-humanist•Power operates through institutions•Dispersed •Exercised through ritual & normalization•Does not matter who operates the machines - Bentham
Docile Bodies: Exercising Power
Are citizens whose moral behaviour may be subjected or transformed ( open to ‘improvement’), which can only be achieved through strict regiment of disciplinary acts.
Docile Bodies: Exercising Power
Uninterrupted Cohesion
Examination
Testing
Assessment & Measurement
Normal / Natural
Effects of Power
Internalization of rules and regulations
Surveillance & Technological encroachment
Creation of Experts•Criminology….