FEM 2104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Jeremy Bentham, Edward Said, Biopower

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: FEM 2104
• Professor: Emilie Dionne

Document Summary

Chair of the the history of systems of thought . But he is very useful in critical influence on the topic of humanity. Juridical power: wanted to get rid of the traditional notion of power, power was operated as a subtraction form. If you commit a crime a body part was cut off. The problem with this sort of power is that it isn"t efficient: discipline & the development of capital. A shift from juridical power to more productive forms of domination. We can see in this early development of capitalism. Organizing their bodies in space and time to one certain job = more effective. This operates on the notion of organizing bodies to be more productive (self organize even when power isn"t around: displinat power. Where juridical power operates by subtraction, disciplinary power is productive. Primary sites of discinplinary: the school; the military; and the prison. The site at which these three techniques intersect is the examination: the panopticon.