SOCI 380 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Governmentality, Biopolitics, Bourgeoisie
29 May 2016
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Domination is the effect of always being successful. Micro-ph(cid:455)si(cid:272)s of power: power is (cid:374)ot possessed (cid:271)ut e(cid:454)er(cid:272)ised. A professor has more power over his students in a college environment. Is invested with more power over us than we are over him / anybody else. Through observation, normalizing judgement and examination, disciplinary power (in prison and beyond) is trying to normalize us: And to make us subject to the norm (to be "normal"; doing what is expected) While this power normalizes us, it also differentiates us. It individualizes us through observation, judgement, and examination. In some of these settings, the norm is actually to be individual, different, innovative, think outside the box, etc. Power is less a thing and more of a relation. If (cid:455)ou set a(cid:374)d shape desire (cid:455)ou deter(cid:373)i(cid:374)e (cid:272)o(cid:374)du(cid:272)t. Power is less a thing than a relation. Power shapes what we want to do in the first place.
