Power

Question 1

Hegemony:

Answer 1

• 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

Question 2

Sovereign power:

Answer 2

• 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)

Question 3

Power/knowledge (discursive power):

Answer 3

/

Question 4

Disciplinary (discursive power):

Answer 4

• internalization ensures compliance
• creates dolicity inits subjects
• no one holds it

Question 5

Docility (discursive power):

Answer 5

/

Question 6

Hegemony explains how ____ works beyond just resorting to ____ ____.

Answer 6

• domination

- violent force

Question 7

In hegemony, through _____, domination is achieved.

Answer 7

consent

Question 8

____ of violent/serious consequences can be enough to ensure consent. No actual application of ____ needed.

Answer 8

• threat

- force

Question 9

Hegemony was originally used to describe ___ ____.

Answer 9

class relations (eg. working class dominated by bourgeoisie class)

Question 10

Consent to own oppression leads to …

Answer 10

Foucault’s thoughts on power

Question 11

Describe how panopticon design illustrates disciplinary power:

Answer 11

• surveillance
• partitioning of space
• examination
• timetables
• nothing actually keeping them in but fear of consequence keeps them in

Question 12

How is disciplinary power exercised?

Answer 12

in small, everyday behaviours by everyone

Question 13

Discourses:

Answer 13

sets of interconnected texts that produce meaning

Question 14

Discourse constructs the _____. It defines and produces the _____ of our _____.

Answer 14

• topic
• objects
• knowledge

Question 15

Discourse governs the way that a topic can be meaningfully _____ about and ______ about.

Answer 15

• talked

- reasoned

Question 16

Discourse influences how ideas are put into ____ and used to _____ the _____ of others.

Answer 16

• practice
• regulate
• conduct

Question 17

Truth is not …. it is…

Answer 17

• out in the world

- the effect of the power of discourse

Question 18

Discourse marks some things as…

Answer 18

inside the true and other things as outside the true

Question 19

____ _____ ____ are a powerful consequence of discourse. They appear _____ or just the way things are done.

Answer 19

• common sense beliefs

- natural

Question 20

Knowledge is power =

Answer 20

• 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

Question 21

Discursive power: _____ is _____. There is no _____.

Answer 21

• knowledge is power and power is knowledge

- translation

Question 22

______ and _____ are very powerful discourses.

Answer 22

• neoliberalism

- capitalism

Question 23

Neoliberalism and capitalism are sets of _____ texts (_____, _____, _____, ____) that produce their own ___ _____.

Answer 23

• interconnected
• social
• economic
• political
• ethical
• truth effects

Question 24

Neoliberalism and capitalism are powerful due to the ____ and ______ of these effects.

Answer 24

• size

- pervasiveness

Question 25

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.

Answer 25

- power | - produce

Question 26

Not all truth effects are ____.

Answer 26

good

Question 27

How to resist bad truth effect with sovereign power:

Answer 27

- refuse to do what the person is trying to make you do | - you successfully resist as long as you don't do it

Question 28

Why doesn't that technique work with discursive power?

Answer 28

- it's always already present | - you cannot get outside discourse

Question 29

Technologies of the self:

Answer 29

- critical awareness - imagining/creating a new sense of self - developing practices to take care of that self