theorisation of the power/knowledge relationship Foucault in theorizing the relationship between power and knowledge basically focused on how power operated in the institutions and in its techniques. The point is how power was supported by knowledge in the functioning of institutions of punishment. “He places the body at the centre of the struggles between different formations of power/knowledge. The techniques of regulation are applied to the body” (Wheterell et al.‚ 2001: 78) Power is the ability
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Discourse: based on ideas of Michel Foucault‚ discourse theory refers to the idea that the terms in which we speak‚ write and think about the world are a reflection of wider relations of power‚ and since they are also linked to practise‚ are themselves important in maintaining that power structure In the Order of Things (1970) Foucault focuses on fields of knowledge‚ such as economics‚ or natural history and the conventions according to which they were classified and represented in particular
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The Bush administration was able to use discourse following these events to justify wars and to push through their right-wing agenda. Discourse is usually used to describe a discussion or debate that is generally between not just two people‚ but rather a large group of people. A discourse is also usually a one sided argument and is meant convince or justify to the public what the speaker or writer believes based on their opinions‚ ideas‚ and theories. For instance in the article it speaks about
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SESSION TEN LANGUAGE AND POWER (2): POWER BEHIND DISCOURSE Main points in this session: 1. Power behind discourse: Standard language 2. Power behind discourse: discourse types as ‘effects of power’ 3. Power and access to discourse The idea of ‘power behind discourse’ is that the whole social order of discourse is put together and held together as a hidden effect of power. Fairclough (1989) = three aspects of ‘power behind discourse’‚ i.e. of hidden effects of power: 1. Standard language
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Foucault believed that power is never in any one person’s hands‚ it does not show itself in any obvious manner but rather as something that works its way into our imaginations and serves to constrain how we act. For example in the setting of a workplace the power does not pass from the top down; instead it circulates through their organizational practices. Such practices act like a grid‚ provoking and inciting certain courses of action and denying others. Foucault considers this as no straightforward
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The Subject and Power Author(s): Michel Foucault Source: Critical Inquiry‚ Vol. 8‚ No. 4 (Summer‚ 1982)‚ pp. 777-795 Published by: The University of Chicago Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1343197 . Accessed: 26/09/2011 07:49 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars‚ researchers‚ and students discover‚ use‚ and
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Truth and Power In this essay‚ Foucault’s principal interest is how power diffuses itself in systems of authority and how it affects of truth are produced within discourses which in themselves are neither true nor false. Truth itself is the product of relations of power and of the systems in which it follows‚ it changes as system changes. There are certain systems in society. So‚ the system is formed of many individuals‚ so it is a group power. Therefore‚ he doesn’t focus on any individual
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J Y V Ä S K Y L Ä S T U D I E S I N H U M A N I T I E S 194 Jari K. Kokkinen Racial Discourse in James Baldwin’s Blues for Mister Charlie (1964): Drama and the Hegemonic Struggle JYVÄSKYLÄ STUDIES IN HUMANITIES 194 Jari K. Kokkinen Racial Discourse in James Baldwin’s Blues for Mister Charlie (1964): drama and the hegemonic struggle Esitetään Jyväskylän yliopiston humanistisen tiedekunnan suostumuksella julkisesti tarkastettavaksi yliopiston vanhassa juhlasalissa S212
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Power and Sex: Intertwined Most people view sexuality as a form of liberation. In other words‚ when you say “yes” to sex‚ you’re saying no to power and political liberation can be reached through sexual liberation. Michel Foucault disagrees with this. Foucault rejects the repressive hypothesis‚ which claims that sex has been consistently repressed. According to Foucault‚ power and sexuality have a more complex relationship. He believes that the increase of discourse on the topic of sex and sexuality
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period is characterized by analyses of power: the structure of power within society and its distribution‚ and the way relations of power unfold. The problem is that Foucault seems to imply that all social phenomena‚ from education‚ law‚ policing‚ discipline‚ governance (the institutions that form society’s infrastructure)‚ the apparatuses that engender and affect cultural and familial life‚ are reducible to an analysis of the relations of power operating within. Power is described as ubiquitous and embedded
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