PHL 333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Empirical Evidence, Noam Chomsky
8 Dec 2016
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Paul-michel foucault on discipline & punishment . We have access to knowledge produced by power (systems: power is inserted by political institutions. Eg. if you steal you"re going to jail. - written law followed up by action: he"s interested in the institution like the university that has no political power over one. Q: in what sense does a legal system exert power over you: power produces knowledge, exerting power over someone is dominant in society, power is more oppressive than productive. (can be used to take advantage of one) Q: what should we do about society: you understand yourself better when you take concepts and put them together in order to understand other things (build on prior knowledge). Jail is a method/form of exerting dominance over someone. 2. 1 characteristics of panopticon: as seen in the plague analogy. Sanction (punishment) of a place divided into orders- how plague is made. In a plague people are treated the way they should be treated.
