lec 2 sep16 foucault’s emphasis on ethics/truth are in the ideals of the university’s mission...

Lec 2 sep16Foucault’s emphasis on Ethics/Truth are in

the ideals of the university’s mission

Purpose of the university, i.e.: its mission: Academe in search of: • Philosophical foundations of

knowledge• Methods of developing Self-

knowledge• Methods of inquiry into the world

The mission of York University is the pursuit, preservation, and dissemination of knowledge. …Committed to • Academic freedom, • Social justice, • Accessible education, • Collegial self-governance,…

Tentanda Via: the way must be tried.

Source: http://www.yorku.ca/president/about/mission.html (accessed 2011 Sept)

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlitwtGZbT4&feature=c4-overview-vl&list=PLILufo_BNE98WfCVyGwgBhi3FJSTkn73I york brand 5 min

• http://www.youtube.com/user/YorkUniversity (this is my time)

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfSOUrvTcVI&feature=c4-overview-vl&list=PLILufo_BNE98WfCVyGwgBhi3FJSTkn73I (new brand)

Realities:

Panopticonhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVTKHI5ovyc

4.5 min

Campus surveillance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLB2o1G2bL0

Foucault’s argument:

The ruling/regulating power ultimately decides and develops the systems for managing and controlling people: e.g.,In different periods, power creates or changes the way people are managed and controlled : e.g., tools of control in the areas of :• Education: F’s power/knowledge - knowledge of how

people's behavior can powerfully be shaped. ‘Education’ is based on new techniques of social engineering, normalizing populations and control over society.• Professions : represent the institutionalization of

knowledge by those in power

“Power is no longer the conventional power of institutions and leaders, but instead the capillary modes of power that controls individuals and their knowledge, the mechanism by which power “reaches into the very grain of individuals, touches their bodies and inserts itself into their actions and attitudes, their discourses, learning processes and everyday lives.” (Foucault, Michel. Power/Knowledge, p. 30)

UCalif corporatization:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iopSdBFchM

3min

youtube video on Ucalif: Uploaded on Nov 21, 2009

"What happened about 1980 was that states started to cut their funding of higher education, & so universities looked for other ways of making money, & so they concentrated on raising funds & doing research, & especially research funded by corporations & the federal government. And so, basically now at a lot of universities, instruction only represents about ten percent of the budget, and so its a minor aspect of the universities. And most people dont know that, that universities, in some ways, are just kind of fronts for investment banks and investments...."

Bob Samuels, president of the University of California American Federation of Teachers, interviewed on Democracy Now, 20 Nov 2009http://changinguniversities.blogspot....

http://prezi.com/8jwmhetoxrw3/michel-foucault-and-rhetoric/ on Foucault

by Justin Sanders on 25 April 2013

Watch the following after you have grasped some concepts of Foucault, but not now:

Michael Roth: A critical intro to Foucault time 1.14 hrhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHkZvRQIQ5s&list=TLgA4ECV4JR7A

1:14 hrs

Theories on ‘power’:

• Economic power (Karl Marx & Marxist)• Corporate monopoly• Media conglomerates

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1JKzw50PzA york commercialization 3min

• Disciplinary power (Michel Foucault)• Normalizing social behaviour by monitoring and

regulating it.• Certainty of control• Society unconsciously and unquestioningly

accepts the capillaries of power and its disciplinary control

The genealogy of power/ knowledge reveals the way the body is regulated through power that explicitly disciplines bodies

• Governmentality • Biopower

F’s Governmentality :

• The way governments produce the citizen who must obey/follow governments' policies

• The organized practices (mentalities, rationalities, and techniques) through which subjects are governed

• The techniques and strategies of regulation the society behave and act to make it governable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW3yyTCfm6Q

US - Occupy student debt 2011 (6 min)

Disciplined bodies, e.g., in prisons, the military, the corporate world and in schools. Modern Times (Chaplin US 1936), …Gattaca (Niccol US 1997), • Spatial division of individuals• Control of their activities, • Organization of individuals into groups• Coordination of these different groups • Race and punishment• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYP0W2NNu-o

• Philippine univ -Shaming http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1uf5T2QAYI

Biopower: The operations of power that secure and defend the nation-state as it circulates within civil society

• F’s biopower refers to the techniques of “subjugation of bodies and the control of populations.” 

• 18th C: Power was intertwined into the development of capitalism as the bodies of workers were inserted into the production machinery and population was applied to economic processes. 

• Segregation and social hierarchization ensured “relations of domination and effects of hegemony”

• War of attrition or racial conflicts defend the Society, i.e., the nation-state.

• ‘if I want to live, you must die’ into a biological formulation: ‘death of the bad race, of the inferior race (or the degenerate, or the abnormal)

F’s Biopower: the political logic used to manage and control populations through speculations about the future based on probabilities and statistics.

Security system form the main apparatus of biopower, informs the policies and practices.

These policies and their implementation should result in the economic maximization of resources while maintaining scarcity and acceptable levels of poverty.