MCC-UE 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Michel Foucault
5 Oct 2017
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Some people had more power to speak about some subjects than others . Structuralism: we are structured within these large structures of meaning. If structuralist ideas work, they can be used universally. The great model of language was a failure. The history which bears and determines us has the form of a war rather than that of a language. Does not mean: nothing is real, there is no right or wrong. And our discourse is expressed in and by media (and practices) How meaning is produced through relationships of power we live in a meaningful world and we know how to interpret what we see. Meaning is not formed from connections deep within our brains, meaning emerges through people trying to take power to say meaningful things. Old medieval ways of punishment were replaced with: regimentation, reform, order, surveillance. Discourse asks: (what does it plug into?)
