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4.SPACE/KNOWLEDGE (MICHEL FOUCAULT (TRUTH (intellectuals should represent…
4.SPACE/KNOWLEDGE
MICHEL FOUCAULT
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French philosopher, historian of ideas, social theorist and literary critic.
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theories primarily address the relationship between power and knowledge,
The government can dehumanise citizens by depriving them from names and personal belongings and identifying them by n umbers. “Pesel numbers” = similarity to system running in Germany in Concentration Camps.
TRUTH
intellectuals should represent a specific political and moral virtue.
- Especially telling powerful people the truth they do not want to hear.
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SURVEILLANCE
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Surveillance society
"a society that collects precise details of our personal lives, ." - David Lyon
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UTOPIA
Walter Russell Mead:
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heterotopia is where things are different - that is, a collection whose members have few or no intelligible connections with one another."
Foucault: hetero- topia
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a parallel space (such as a prison) that contains undesirable bodies, gathered in that place to make a real utopian space (outside) possible. (you kick out “bad” people and have your utopian city)
TYPES
CRISIS
places, where rituals, e.g. coming of age or a honeymoon take place, 18 hits og belt on 18th birthday
DEVIATION
institutions where non- normative individuals are placed (hospitals, prisons, rest homes, cemeteries)
RITUAL/PURIFICATION
isolated spaces, not as accessible as a public space (sauna, hammam)
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