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Power is knowledge paper (lecture (Concept = a representation of a class…
Power is knowledge paper
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have citizens without equal rights. Women LGTBQ, minorities.
politics pervades all social life. Not that it should, but it does. How else do people impose minimum age of consent, drinking, abortion, etc.
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power of labels 'tax payers', 'special interest groups'
Authority: legitimacy of power. Socially approved power. Acceptance of role in society. Abused power, may not be kept. Idea of authority is based in common discuours that shapes values. Challenge traditional authority with legal-rational needs change in zeitgeist.
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Jan 18: power is not something that somebody else holds. "Power is productive". Bob Dylan. Power is vested in language. Discourse. exerting power.
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Michel Foucault. explore ways of thinking about power that do not conform to dichotomy of power to and power over.
liken it to string theory. Ties all of these concepts together. Gravitational pull as power over, and electromangetic fields as power to.
Have a defining influence on the way we think and behave, not only in politics but in every waking moment.
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Discourse. Has been essential to the dividing practices we have seen in the past and are seeing now.
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