On Power…

… and other things about Michel Foucault

Intro to World Lit 2120

👪 POWER
 Repressive Power

• Forces us to do the things we do not w nt

• More common perception of power

• Visible

• It is exercised by superiors over inferiors

• In re lity, it is the bsence -or the l ck- of “power”

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 Normalizing Power

• M kes us do the things “th t should be done!”

• Less common perception of power

• Invisible

• It is n inherent p rt of our rel tions

• Everyone is subjected to it
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 Normalization

• Sh pes our views of the world

• Yet we perceive those views re our own

• Inevit ble

• M kes repressive power less necess ry

• Science h s n import nt role in it

• There is no conspir cy!

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