ASCI 1110 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Immanuel Velikovsky, Michel Foucault, Pseudoscience
6 Feb 2018
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Looked upon the significance of power relations and how historical fact can better society in its current state. However, it becomes apparent that there is a further dimension in the power associated with the sciences of sexuality. Not only is there control exercised via others" knowledge of individuals; there is also control via individuals" knowledge of themselves. Individuals internalize the norms laid down by the sciences of sexuality and monitor themselves in an effort to conform to these norms. Thus, they are controlled not only as objects of disciplines but also as self-scrutinizing and self-forming subjects. Worlds in collision: (cid:862)[ ] (cid:271)ook of wars in the celestial sphere that took place in historical times. In these wars, the pla(cid:374)et earth parti(cid:272)ipated too. Proposed that around the 15th century bce, a comet (now called the planet venus) had originally been ejected from jupiter, and closely passed near earth.
