Michel Foucault, The Subject and Power | The How of Power Relations | Philosophy Core Concepts

This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.

This Core Concept video focuses on Michel Foucault's short piece "The Subject and Power", found in Power (The Essential Works of Foucault, 1954-1984, Vol. 3). It discusses specifically why he thinks that it is important to focus on the "How" of power relations, rather than just the "What" and the "Why". He also distinguishes objective capacities from communicative/sign systems, and power relations, and discusses how they interconnect with each other. He finishes with the notion of "disciplines" as blocks of these three, and what the disciplining of society would mean (it's not that everything is a prison)

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