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Post Structuralism Elective
Post Structuralism Elective
1. Foucault
a. Biopower can only be forced upon people who lack freedom and autonomy
i. People will talk about how slavery disproves this
ii. Power always exists within a socialized space
1. Socialized space means more than one person, and if both have
freedom, it creates the potentiality for power
a. One person can use their action against the action of the other
b. Genealogy
c. Alt
i. Rather than looking at power relations from the institution, we need to reverse
it and look at how the power relation is affected by the institution itself