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- He opposed any identification of knowledge—even the most mistaken knowledge—with power. Rather, he called for an appreciation of the ways in which knowledge and power are always entangled with each other in historically specific circumstances, forming complex dynamics of what he termed pouvoir-savoir, or “ power-knowledge.”
www.britannica.com/biography/Michel-Foucault/Foucaults-ideasMichel Foucault - Philosopher, Postmodernism, Power | Britannica
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Apr 5, 2016 · Foucault insists that power “is everywhere, not because it embraces everything, but because it comes from everywhere.” He acknowledges there is no power that is exercised without a series of aims that it results from the choice or decision of an individual subject.”
Aug 26, 2019 · Foucault was interested in power and social change. In particular, he studied how these played out as France shifted from a monarchy to democracy via the French revolution.
Mar 15, 2017 · Foucault showed how the sovereign power of Leviathan (think crowns, congresses and capital) has over the past 200 years come to confront two new forms of power: disciplinary power (which he also called anatomo-politics because of its detailed attention to training the human body) and bio-politics.
- Colin Koopman
Dec 3, 2018 · First of all, Foucault rejects the standard picture according to which power is always about the strong oppressing the weak, the rich oppressing the poor, the monarchy oppressing its subjects. Instead he suggests that in the modern world, power is spread throughout society.
Jul 3, 2023 · According to the disciplinary model, power is an entirely discursive and productive phenomenon, whose main product is the human subject: “The individual, that is, is not the vis-a-vis of power; it is, I believe, one of its prime effects” (Foucault, 1980, p. 98; original italics).
- Gerd Christensen
Apr 2, 2003 · Foucault claims that the dominance of biopower as the paradigmatic form of power means that we live in a society in which the power of the law has subsided in favor of regulative and corrective mechanisms based on scientific knowledge.
Traditionally, power has been understood as “being at the top of the pyramid”; and that was all that it was understood to be. But Foucault expands (indeed, totally reconceives) what constitutes power, and shows how this traditional view can be situated within a fuller understanding.