Michel Foucault's 'The Subject and Power'

In this episode, I cover Michel Foucault's essay, "The Subject and Power."

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[dandiacal]

I can't emphasize enough how important these vids in particular. A lot of the public discourse is explicitly opposed to Foucault, is dismissive of him, to say nothing of a certain superstar professor's verdict.. It is nice to see an alternative on the yt.

[apollicino]

Subjugation and power would be interesting to apply to the proliferation of conversion therapy phenomenon like programs that emerged in the 70 (thinking of "Exodus" featured in the documentary Pray Away). Blends phycology, religion, social norms.

[simoneverodimarrow]

You pull it out so digestible; thank you! 🧒🏽

[enlightenedanalysis]

Hi David. Great video. I enjoyed it. Fortunately I had a copy of the Foucault essay you mentioned and I started reading it immediately after this video. Your explanations really do help in making sense of the text. Cheers Thanks.

[fuad]

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[jasonkatz]

Really informative as always David! Your lectures are brilliant. Do you read any Giorgio Agamben? I would love to hear you go over his "The Signature of All Things" where he defends his method and Homo Sacer project. Or Walter Benjamin!

[kimcosmos]

His idea of pastoral power evolved into governmentality before he died. Governmentality is the instrumental rationality of governance. Ostrom shows how this can and should be decentralised back to the local stakeholders who can most efficiently monitor it. But traditional parochial norms are controlled by SME gatekeeper "experts" employed by think tanks and promoted by the PR industry that employs 6x as many journalists as the mass media does.

[skateboard]

it would be really cool if you talked about Foucault's history of sexuality in some extent, I just started reading it! love your videos man, you've introduced me to a number of really great theorists, namely baudrillard

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