SCLG1002 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Bruno Latour, Governmentality, Sound Bite

• School: University of Sydney
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SCLG1002
• Professor: Seamus Lachlan Barker

Document Summary

For foucault, the formation of persons, of subjectivity, within relations of power, is an essential part of the development of modern societies. He saw the characteristics of various forms of scientific knowledge and their construction of. Truth" about human beings as constituting a form of power, and this was why he saw it as important to undertake what he called an archaeology" of knowledge. Knowledge or discourses-> laying the foundation for political authority and as having social effects. Such discourses should not, for foucault, be seen as simply a reflection or expression of what they refer to human beings but as actually constructing or constituting what it means to be a human being. -emphasised the constitutive role of knowledge. Freud"s opposition of the pleasure" to the reality principle". The implication is that the more sex is released from this repression, the more truly free or liberated we become.