[RHETOR 151] - Midterm Exam Guide - Ultimate 40 pages long Study Guide!
6 Feb 2017
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Need data and intelligence - not only know but gather and collect and understand it (accumulation) Also forming people: education, productive citizens) for the neoliberal society. Questio: control over people by questioning (torturing them) Information is attached to conquering - knowledge is power of conquering empires, territories and people. Extension of powers: centers (european countries) controlling peripheries. Ensuring return of not one, but many ships. Turn everything into numbers to put them on maps, tables and instruments > centers of calculation (ex. The distant and abstract need to be (1) mobile - can be returned (2) stabilized - move without decay or corruption (3) combination - can be aggregated, shuffled and re-ordered. 2 barriers for unknown territory - cape bojada and the equator. These barriers were physical and psychological - sea of darkness . European vessels were effective in a limited range/ within an envelope.
