Post by griffo on Feb 24, 2021 13:03:42 GMT
Foucalt's concept of power
literariness.org/2016/04/05/foucaults-concept-of-power/
Foucault insists that power “is everywhere, not because it embraces everything, but because it comes from everywhere.” He acknowledges there is no power that is exercised without a series of aims that it results from the choice or decision of an individual subject.” He also concedes that “where there is power, there is resistance, and yet..this resistance is never in a position of exteriority in relation to power.”
Foucault underscored the discursive basis of power, social relations, and institutions by showing how the so-called “objective” disciplines like the sciences relied upon underlying assumptions about the object to be investigated, used particular forms of language and thought in order to talk about this object, and eventually constructed an institution around the object for its study and control.
Foucault’s genealogical and archeological analyses of discourses involves a non-linear, conflictual and contradictory historical account of those discourses or institutions that have formed our ideas of sexuality, sickness, criminality, madness, morality etc. revealing how dominant power structures maintain their superiority over the margins through the creation of particular discourses. He regards discourse as a central human activity, but not as a universal “general text”, a vast sea of signification. He is interested in the historical dimension of discursive change. Madness and Civilization, The Birth of the Clinic, Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality show that various forms of knowledge about sex, crime, psychiatry have arisen and been replaced. He concentrated on the fundamental shifts occurring between epochs.
literariness.org/2016/04/05/foucaults-concept-of-power/
Foucault insists that power “is everywhere, not because it embraces everything, but because it comes from everywhere.” He acknowledges there is no power that is exercised without a series of aims that it results from the choice or decision of an individual subject.” He also concedes that “where there is power, there is resistance, and yet..this resistance is never in a position of exteriority in relation to power.”
Foucault underscored the discursive basis of power, social relations, and institutions by showing how the so-called “objective” disciplines like the sciences relied upon underlying assumptions about the object to be investigated, used particular forms of language and thought in order to talk about this object, and eventually constructed an institution around the object for its study and control.
Foucault’s genealogical and archeological analyses of discourses involves a non-linear, conflictual and contradictory historical account of those discourses or institutions that have formed our ideas of sexuality, sickness, criminality, madness, morality etc. revealing how dominant power structures maintain their superiority over the margins through the creation of particular discourses. He regards discourse as a central human activity, but not as a universal “general text”, a vast sea of signification. He is interested in the historical dimension of discursive change. Madness and Civilization, The Birth of the Clinic, Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality show that various forms of knowledge about sex, crime, psychiatry have arisen and been replaced. He concentrated on the fundamental shifts occurring between epochs.