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1. • • 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.”
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   What does Foucault think about power?

   • It’s true that there’s a lot to take issue with in his work—I’ll come to that in a moment—but as I see it, there’s also a lot to be inspired by. 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.

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   What does Foucault mean by power-knowledge discourse?

   • According to Foucault, power-knowledge discourse does not mean “knowledge is power.” It is a relationship that shows how certain knowledge is suppressed and other knowledge is produced through power. Power produces knowledge as well as suppressed knowledge.

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   What was Foucault's disciplinary power?

   • 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.

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   How did Foucault understand resistance?

   • With the idea of power as government, Foucault was also able to clarify his understanding of resistance. Because government refers to strategic, regulated and rationalized modes of power that have to be legitimized through forms of knowledge, the idea of critique as a form of resistance now becomes crucial.

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   What did Foucault believe?

   • In his study of ancient Greek ethics, Foucault continued to pursue his idea that there was no true self that could be deciphered and emancipated, but that the self was something that had been—and must be—created. There is, however, a whole new axis of analysis present in his late studies of the subject.

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   How can we understand Foucault's broader projects?

   • An important step in understanding Foucault's broader projects is to understand his view of power. Foucault's analyses of power are simultaneously articulated at two levels, the empirical and the theoretical.

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3. literariness.org › 05 › foucaults-concept-of-powerFoucault’s Concept of Power – Literary Theory and Criticism

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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.”

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   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.

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   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.

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   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.

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   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).

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   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.

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    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.