Power Flashcards
Hegemony:
- process of moral and intellectual leadership through which dominated or subordinate classes consent to their own domination by ruling class
- as opposed to being simply forced or coerced into accepting inferior positions
Sovereign power:
- supreme ruler with ultimate power
- traditional understanding of power
- someone has power and they can use it to influence even force people
- whoever has this power is the sovereign (they can do whatever they want with it)
Power/knowledge (discursive power):
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Disciplinary (discursive power):
- internalization ensures compliance
- creates dolicity inits subjects
- no one holds it
Docility (discursive power):
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Hegemony explains how ____ works beyond just resorting to ____ ____.
- domination
- violent force
In hegemony, through _____, domination is achieved.
consent
____ of violent/serious consequences can be enough to ensure consent. No actual application of ____ needed.
- threat
- force
Hegemony was originally used to describe ___ ____.
class relations (eg. working class dominated by bourgeoisie class)
Consent to own oppression leads to …
Foucault’s thoughts on power
Describe how panopticon design illustrates disciplinary power:
- surveillance
- partitioning of space
- examination
- timetables
- nothing actually keeping them in but fear of consequence keeps them in
How is disciplinary power exercised?
in small, everyday behaviours by everyone
Discourses:
sets of interconnected texts that produce meaning
Discourse constructs the _____. It defines and produces the _____ of our _____.
- topic
- objects
- knowledge
Discourse governs the way that a topic can be meaningfully _____ about and ______ about.
- talked
- reasoned
Discourse influences how ideas are put into ____ and used to _____ the _____ of others.
- practice
- regulate
- conduct
Truth is not …. it is…
- out in the world
- the effect of the power of discourse
Discourse marks some things as…
inside the true and other things as outside the true
____ _____ ____ are a powerful consequence of discourse. They appear _____ or just the way things are done.
- common sense beliefs
- natural
Knowledge is power =
- knowledge can be translated into power over someone (blackmail)
- treats the 2 as separate (there can be power without knowledge: use a gun not blackmail)
- sovereign power
Discursive power: _____ is _____. There is no _____.
- knowledge is power and power is knowledge
- translation
______ and _____ are very powerful discourses.
- neoliberalism
- capitalism
Neoliberalism and capitalism are sets of _____ texts (_____, _____, _____, ____) that produce their own ___ _____.
- interconnected
- social
- economic
- political
- ethical
- truth effects
Neoliberalism and capitalism are powerful due to the ____ and ______ of these effects.
- size
- pervasiveness
The more obvious something is to you or the greater the level of truth a statement has for you, the more ____ has been exercise to____ that truth.
- power
- produce
Not all truth effects are ____.
good
How to resist bad truth effect with sovereign power:
- refuse to do what the person is trying to make you do
- you successfully resist as long as you don’t do it
Why doesn’t that technique work with discursive power?
- it’s always already present
- you cannot get outside discourse
Technologies of the self:
- critical awareness
- imagining/creating a new sense of self
- developing practices to take care of that self
