RHETOR 103B Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Biopower, Western World
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Reality is in the end, material and not ideal . Unless you analyze the text right after. Create knowledge about people of the orient to control them. Used to identify oneself in relation to the other. C came after orientalism, but c also precedes orientalism (the study) Orientalism enables colonialism (the two do not cause itself) Goal to improve people and achieve progress. Done through force of law - reshapes morality and politics. Law destroys old options and create new ways of being. People again agency: means for creating conditions . Through morality - subjects see chance of moral improvement. Ingrained in you (don"t need others to regulate); intimate spaces . In modern state, the goal is to achieve western liberal values (modern state has spread elsewhere) (assad) Subjugated, speak in framework of orientalism (said) Capacity for resistance (but colored by the spirit of improvement) Violence/ despotism inherent, used to improve the modern state (assad) (assad)
