SOCI 377 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Homeostasis, Aleatoricism, Biopolitics
30 Jan 2018
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Color/symbol legend: blue = questions, red = examples, quotes, green = definitions, purple, ( ), (underlined) = important concepts/ideas, black = all other notes, = this leads to, thus. Review: archaeology of knowledge, foucault: knowledge is plural and circulated, alliance between a scholarly pursuit. Subjugate populations: power is applied to us or a group, history of sexuality: transgressing, pushing against the ways power exhibits sexuality. Control of territory/space: ability to control power, obligation to obey. Body became a productive force: power over/of. How does power function: let live and make die, micro mechanics of power. Instruments that form and accumulate knowledge: technologies of power take hold of the body. Knowledge has the basis of techniques of power. Disciplines: key to get hold of bodies. To extract and police bodies: we need different forms of power. Acting on the population as a whole. Mechanism in which we (beings) internalize = shapes individuals.
