Political Science 2237E Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Biopower, Genealogy, Panopticism
31 Aug 2016
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Sp tells all canadians are equal under the law - but doesn"t describe differences b/w men/women pay grades. Highlights way power functions like a machine/mechanical way power works. Source: the state (i. e. from king to social construct) Waging of war + maintenance of peace by gaining monopoly of power. Public order + well being of society (newly emerging functions) Developed through non state entities and institutions (policing functions of the state) Penopticon emerges - cicuit or apparatus of power. Target = control + obedience of individual body. Instruments: technologies one-way perpetual visibility, surveillance + self- surveillance (panopticism); internalization of guilt + fear of punishment (nietzsche, debtor/creditor relationship) Make person paranoid enough to behave in accordance to rules as they are set out. Become evil things - revolt comes through language. Reverses natural relations of inequality b/w strong animal (warrior) and. Reverses natural relations of inequality b/w strong animal (warrior) and weak preistly type.
