MPC 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Michel Foucault, Jeremy Bentham, Biopower
16 Feb 2018
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Inversion of knowledge is power power is knowledge. Morality evolves over time apriority: something that just exist. Genealogy of morals the political concept of rank (construction) always transforms itself into the spiritual (natural) concept of rank" - nietzsche. Modern power functions through language (i. e damage vs lone wolf, execution vs terrorist) Murder"- state retains power over life & death in judicial sanctions execution//war (collateral murder) Institutional produces knowledge about citizens and subjects. Power exercise through collection of data and the ordering of society. Bodies increasingly emit signs that are measurable (catalog by state) Photography and visibility are essential to the projection of normal behaviour. Photography document the perfect look, body, and the pose: idealised height of body. The body undergo a form of training//induction to these normalised regime of images//power. Normalised: conform to a certain prescribe and accepted behaviour. The panopticon: prisoners are always visible, warden is not visible (panoptic prison) Fear of the possibility of being watched affect behaviour.
