RHETOR 103B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Absolute Monarchy, Deconstruction, Immanence
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** subjects not oppressed/ repressed by power; power embedded within things. Power often associated with destruction/ silence/ killing < negative depiction. Should focus on productive forces of power - of us, our thinking, our sensibilities. Subject comes into being as an operation of power. Confession - one relation of power that produces subjects. Truth not by nature free, production imbued in relations of power. Sex is what one confesses, confession transforms sex into discourse. Nothing called sex before the act of confession. Confession takes place in field of power (doctor, social worker, psychiatrist) Confession as form of discourse that tells us about ourselves (ex. psychoanalysis) Transformation of confession from religious institutions to scientific institutions. F: not ideology that corrupt material conditions of sex (idea of marx) There is no sexuality outside of discourse. Power also includes (not only exclude, discriminate etc. ) for the most part. Pleasure not eliminated in science of sexuality. Pa does not separate power and sexual desire.
