Understanding Why Knowledge is Power - Michel Foucault

A video explaining how Foucault's concept can be applied to the emergence of high school cliques. (You know the drill)

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[TheRoodio]

I think "knowledge is power" means that knowledge is synthesized in accordance with the interests of the dominant power structures. And also that the very act of a certain group of people producing knowledge about another group is an exercise of power. Like for example the knowledge produced by the colonizers about the colonized (e.g. orientalism). I am also just starting to learn about this :)

[classicleslie]

Knowledge is power, wisdom is how you use that power, money is access to that power, and friends are influences.

[evaincefone]

Knowledge isn’t power, it’s potential power. You can have knowledge but don’t know what to do with it💯

[sirskeptic]

That was a really good introduction for us first time learners on Foucalt. Thanks.

[victorburnett]

Every time I remember my ATM PIN I think to myself "knowledge is power".

[DS-tzlk]

That was an awesome disquisition! TY! The knowledge of other people’s knowledge Foucault and others specifically is power indeed.

[rupikakumar]

I have my exam tomorrow and this video made more sense than any of the text book I have read for the past 2 months. Thanks 👍

[farrashafizh]

Love this! Knowledge becomes a power when it's relevant to the dominant discourse to the society or group.

[ever]

I'm in love with your channel now

[tee_]

Thank you much.. I needed this for an assignment on Foucault's Theory Order of Discourse.

[leslief]

I always thought of knowledge is power as something that you use. Like if you had a gun but had no knowledge of how to use it you are powerless to shoot somthing with it. Or if you had all the material to make a gun but no way of knowing how to construct it, making it yet again powerless. You have no power without knowledge. And I always thought of it like knowledge is infinite and to know everything is to know from the biggest to the smallest of details and what is behind those details and what is behind the details of the details and so on. It not just knowing the whole but what makes up the whole and why that is. And sense the universe is ever expanding, so is knowledge. To truly know it all means to know everything from when a blade of grass is turned to when a new planet/galaxy/whatever is being made and every single detail about it. And if the human brain is even capable of containing such knowledge is even possible sense we have this thing called memory and we tend to lose it. But I dont know, that's just me theorizing. Id like another perspective on it and see if anything I'm thinking is flawed.

[Pyasa.shaitan]

Knowledge + Experience = Wisdom.
We produce more knowledge in 2 weeks today than anytime else in history. There is no way you can take all that in. Wisdom is important and wayyy more important than knowledge.

[AntonisT]

Great content! It really gave me inspiration for an essay I had to write for University. Thank you!

[ibraheemabbas]

I like your narration. It's funny and amusing. Keep it up and good luck!

[lukeakerboom]

That was brilliant 00:00-2:00. The Hebrew explains knowledge as something that none of us were taught growing up. You hit on it. Unsterstanding this is what knowledge is. Not just facts. You hit it on the head.

Knowledge in Hebrew does have a more in depth and broad meaning which I would argue and correct. Knowledge is "to notice" "pay attention" "awareness", "focus". Some definitions being "that which touches you".
Some people do not have these abilities because they just go along with what they have been taught. Like staying in the stem fields and thinking this is the only way to gain knowledge. Knowledge would be like traveling to a new country and been introduced to many different avenues to pay attention. That are brought to your attention. Then you can come home and more things begin to pop up at you that you never "noticed" before.

[MrTheo]

Really excellent video. Very well explained and executed 10/10

[kyianawilliams]

BTW love your content. I'm showing it in a classroom today.

[thomaskelly]

Great video! You can also make another video where you add that discourses have power because of their relation that the speakers of the discourse have over the subjects of their discourse like therapist and doctors to patient, pedagogy to the taught, scientists vs their experiments, criminology to criminals. Great introduction.

[nonemo]

Awww, Rick Roderick! That clip made me happy!

[ArifGhostwriter]

I came here to experience (have been subscribed for a while) what Jordan Peterson so vehemently wishes that the university system will produce - leading lights of the World, who are literally seeking to shine a light for all to benefit by.