PHIL 123 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Panopticism

• School: Emory University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 123
• Professor: Katherine Davies

Document Summary

This is a paradox in that the thing that you feel that frees you the most actually subjects you. To be a self and to have self-consciousness is to be subjected. (this is all about this network of relations// you are being produced based off of what you internalize) A real subjection is born mechanically from a ctitious relation (you are the real subject- which subjects you. It"s born mechanically based off of this network or relations, and the ctitious reality is what you internalize// the self is an effect of modern power, not repressive power. The modern power does not have someone telling you no, it tells you yes. ) This is what causes shift in power (it"s described as a catalyst for functioning in power) Page 95- where there is power there is resistance. What we know is relative to the person// what we internalize is our reality.