Foucault investigated the problem of power...
the power is more like something that acts and operates in a certain way...
The disciplinary structure described by Foucault is the panopticon...
Where there is power...
From Foucault's perspective...
From Althusser's perspective...
The French thinker examines how discipline, as a type of self-regulation...
the power relations between individuals cannot be reduced to...
Michel Foucault thinks that power is not concentrated...
The power in action is the relations between...
...the individual and the society, especially its institutions.
...but diffuse throughout the whole society.
...master-slave or oppressor-victim relations
... there is resistence
...power is not something that can be owned, but rather something that acts and manifests itself in a certain way.
...power is understood as the capacity of an agent to impose his will over the will of the powerless, or the ability to force them to do things they do not wish to do.
... an architectural structure revealed by Jeremy Bentham as a way to arrange prisoners
...encouraged by institutions, becomes the norm in modern societies.
...it's more a strategy than a possession.
...from a critical and histical viewppoint.
