Power is not an institution, and not a structure; neither is it a certain strength we are endowed with; it is the name that one attributes to a complex strategical situation in a particular society.
Paul-Michel Foucault was born in 1926, in Poitiers, France.
In the 1960s, he headed the philosophy departments of the Universities of Clermont-Ferrand and Vincennes. He participated together with the students in the protests and demonstrations of May 68 and, later, was part of a commission for the defense of life and the rights of immigrants. The center of his concern was humanist, in such a way that he is man, in all his dimensions, the absolute axis of his philosophy.
In 1966 he published the first of his great books, Words and Things, which achieved great popularity despite its difficulty. Foucault quickly teamed up with scholars such as Jacques Lacan, Claude Lévi-Strauss, and Roland Barthes to form the new wave of thinkers that would dethrone Jean-Paul Sartre's existensialists. His early works (History of madness, The birth of the clinic, The words and things, The archeology of knowledge) followed a structuralist line, but he is generally regarded as a poststructuralist due to later works, such as Watch and Punish and La History of Sexuality.
In 1970 he was professor of the History of Systems of Thought. The main influences on his thinking were the German philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger. Recognized for his criticism of social institutions and for his ideas about sexuality, and for his theories about power and his relationship with knowledge.
He became one of the leading philosophers of the structuralist current of French thought. His studies questioned the influence of the German political philosopher Karl Marx and the Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud.
Foucault deals mainly with the issue of power, breaking with the classical conceptions of this term. For him, power cannot be located in an institution, therefore the "seizure of power" proposed by the Marxists would not be possible. Power is not considered as something that the individual gives to the sovereign, but is a relationship of forces, a strategic situation in a given society. Therefore, power, being a relationship, is everywhere, the subject is traversed by power relations, it cannot be considered independently of them. To analyze power, Foucault studied disciplinary power and biopower, and the devices of madness and sexuality. For this, instead of a historical analysis, he performs a genealogy, a historical study that does not seek a single and causal origin, but is based on the study of multiplicities and struggles.
Michel Foucault died on June 25, 1984 at the age of fifty-seven, at the La Pitie-Salpetriere hospital in Paris. He suffered from a serious AIDS-related nervous system disease.
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Ngl the answer to the last question confused me a bit and wanna apologize if I told anyone they were correct or didn't respond yesterday.
If you gave me something involving the square root going wrong then I wanna say good job. @Eco, @context, and @kleeon :rat-salute: but I still commend everyone who tried.
Previous answer
The wrong square root of (y - v)^2 was used. According to the conditions of the problem, it should have been -(y -v); not (y - v):
x - v = -(y -v);
x + y = 2v
Note that (x - v) ( an elephant minus an half-elephant, half- mosquito) is positive, while (y - v) is negative. If numbers had been used, you would have seen the fallacy, for example, of:
81 = 81
9 = -9.
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"Your pencils, notebooks, and colored paper cost $1.70."
"I bought 2 pencils at 2 cents each and 5 pencils at 4 cents each- and 8 notebooks and 12 sheets of colored paper, I don't remember the prices. But the bill can't be $1.70."
Why not?
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I try to carry out the most precise and discriminative analyses I can in order to show in what ways things change, are transformed, are displaced. When I study the mechanisms of power, I try to study their specificity... I admit neither the notion of a master nor the universality of his law. On the contrary, I set out to grasp the mechanisms of the effective exercise of power; and I do this because those who are inserted in these relations of power, who are implicated therein, may, through their actions, their resistance, and their rebellion, escape them, transform them—in short, no longer submit to them.
And if I do not say what ought to be done, it is not because I believe there is nothing to be done. Quite on the contrary, I think there are a thousand things to be done, to be invented, to be forged, by those who, recognizing the relations of power in which they are implicated, have decided to resist or escape them. From this point of view, my entire research rests upon the postulate of an absolute optimism. I do not undertake my analyses to say: look how things are, you are all trapped. I do not say such things except insofar as I consider this to permit some transformation of things. Everything I do, I do in order that it may be of use.
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Is the quote basically saying that pointing out the flaws in society isn't necessarily doomerism even if you don't list specific solutions?
An example that comes to my head is the carceral/factory logic of current education systems, with rankings, depositing of knowledge through banking education, tests, grades, rewards, and punishments.
I have been reading a lot about these issues, so new ideas (to me) have entered my mind space, what's possible is not just "get in, grade and get out" but the use of ungrading, and by its methodology, an extension into community building, collaboration, student-led, knowledge construction. The grading with some of its capitalistic and carceral logic can be undone, resisted, escaped, transformed, to a system with no grades, that still accomplishes something worthwhile and can have other effects downstream.
Oh, and ughm :lets-fucking-go:
From this point of view, my entire research rests upon the postulate of an absolute optimism. I do not undertake my analyses to say: look how things are, you are all trapped. I do not say such things except insofar as I consider this to permit some transformation of things. Everything I do, I do in order that it may be of use.
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Yeah Foucault is cool, but you ever fuck with the social reproduction of space? My man Lefebrve has got that shit.
According to slop, that german communist party in the news was not banned, but have not submitted paperwork in time for elections :data-laughing:
I think the argument is that it's still a form of banning, because punishing them now for turning in paperwork late for several years is an arbitrary enforcement of questionable rules with the same effect as a ban.
But like it’s rules? one would think communist party would be aware of the state role, and if they want to participate in spectacle, gotta put on a costume
Isn’t it fucking weird how job interviews are just gauging how convincing a liar you are?
Just won a wet t-shirt contest, where I was the only contestant, and the grand prize is was not having a heat stroke in my 29 °C apartment.
I did it! I beat fucking quarantine!
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I sucked my own dick!
holy shit talking to liberals about Cuba is infuriating
nobody understands anything further than 'cuba bad' because 'dictatorship'
it is possible to criticize them for other reasons but socialism absolutely did not cause the shortages
they're claiming the president called on counterprotestors to kill the protestors
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went back to Reddit and the the Sinophobia is awful. Every thread that mentions China has every user painting them as the most evil nation to ever exist. Anyone who says anything different is shot down with the same talking points. Amazing how easily people fall into herd mentality
Model I follow on Instagram changed her icon to the SOS Cuba thing :kermit-pain:
Holy shit why won’t these boomers leave!
I don’t care if you knew me when I was 4, I don’t know you, go away, I want to go downstairs. :meow-tableflip:anti China anti Cuba social fascists with a red flag make me 100x more tankie as it shows how much you actually will need a centralised state with gulags and secret police to deal with all the indoctrinated reactionaries
kinda wild seeing cold war 2.0 shit. at the same time as pandemic shit. at the same time as climate shit.
