CUL120 Lecture 3: Lecture 3

• School: Macquarie University
• Department: Critical and Cultural Studies
• Course: CUL120
• Professor: All

Document Summary

We are products and vehicles or power/knowledge. Is a network of complex, shifting relations which has no outside". Functions in and through us as subjects in/of power. Can be oppressive; it is primarily productive or constitutive. The individual is not to be conceived as a sort of elementary nucleus . The individual is an effect of power, and at the same time, of precisely to the extent to which it is that effect, it is the element of its articulation . The panopticon explains how processes of subjectification" work in everyday life. How we are constructed as social and cultural actors. How we have the identity we have. Each of us functions as as a vehicle or power/knowledge. We internalise norms > we reproduce them. Norms make us be > make us particular kinds of people. No such thing as normality and abnormality we invent it.