Power/knowledge : Selected Interviews And Other... Site

Through the metaphor of the Panopticon , Foucault illustrates how modern institutions (prisons, schools, hospitals) use surveillance to make individuals monitor themselves. This produces "docile bodies" that are both useful and obedient.

Foucault famously states, "Where there is power, there is resistance". Resistance is not outside of power but is a constant, shifting counter-pressure within every power relation. Key Contents & Chapters Power/knowledge : selected interviews and other...

A guide explaining these concepts is available as an audiobook from Audible for roughly $4.00 . Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings Through the metaphor of the Panopticon , Foucault

Essential summaries of his genealogical method and the concept of "subjugated knowledges". Truth and Power An influential interview defining the "regime of truth". 8 The Eye of Power A discussion on Jeremy Bentham and the Panopticon. 11 Confession of the Flesh Resistance is not outside of power but is

Each society has its own "politics of truth"—the types of discourse it accepts and makes function as true.