RHETOR 103B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Real Sex, Nuclear Weapon, Military Science
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Replaces alliance, rose on theme of family (continuity) but focus on science. Deployment of alliance not obliterated, but supported by deployment of sexuality. Priests > social workers, doctors, police officer. Law becomes normalizing force (instead of prohibit and oppress) and regulate. Normalizing society expulses everything that is abnormal (result in holocaust) Concern about health of society emerges in 19th century. Think in terms of species and population and race. Worry that women/ child/ worker threaten health as figures that were problematic. Extermination of jews result discourses of race purity. Bourgeoisie needed to distinguish the sexuality from proletariat. Need to kill some to preserve ourselves. Rise of 2 kinds of power replacing sovereign power/ juridical power (1) disciplinary power (2) biopower. Each have particulat relationship with life and death. Sovereign decides on who to kill and when to impose the death penalty, not interested in life. Interested in killing or letting live (not improve health or life, not invest)
