Foucault Presentation
PANOPTICON
Foucault notes class
life:
-he saw prosecution of jews -> started being critical
-suiclide attempt -> questioned psychiatrics
-60’s -> hedonistic / hippies -> anti-authoritarian & open about homosexuality
-1968 paris student revolt
He and friedman both very popular, were on television etc
Btw: yay zeitgeist! Just like hegel, but disagreed with hegel bc faucoult thought people
weren’t progressing. Has same as nietschze that (hes against everything and) everything is
all about power, like marx.
Role of the state
Structuralism
Theres (power) systems to control people or events. (Sort of matrix) Theyre invisible -> he
wanted to unveil these structures and systems.
Postmodernism
Zeitgeist. Postmoderntist is very sceptical. Also thinks theres no absolute truth and depends
on time or power structures. Thus the ultimate everything you should question it.
Governmentality
“The art of government” which always ends in control over citizens.
“”raison d’ E’tat” state exists for a purpose, which is control, “reason of the state/
justification”
Forms of power (of government):
Micropower -> over individuals
Metapower -> over whole society
Biopower -> over human bodies (laws, sexuality, abortion, hospitals)
Sciencepower/Regime of Truth -> gov controls science by funding, who decides
things are true or right or false etc? -> government
Economic power -> marketing ()tells us what we want to have. Supply and demand
control the economy -> you want to control demand. Warning = life will be
organized like a gigantic economic free market -> friedman
Welfare state -> sees is from governmentality perspective = state shepherds and guards and
provides us sheep. In the end were a kind of police state. (more power over us than in the
past because technology, people cant stay anonymous anymore)
Friedman notes class
Life:
Immigrant
Great depression-> he thought gov. intervened with “monetary mismanagement” : shortage
of money supply -> became critical of governemental intervention -> became libertarian.
libertarianism
Make individual freedom as big as possoblie -> bets for whole society. Also ypu cant have
political freedom without economic or individual freedom.
Against rent control.
Privatize all economic thingies.
Really consistent in libertatianism:
Legalization of abortion, suiclide, drugs, prostitution
Freedom of military everything
Television series “free to choose”
Quotes
“never waste a good crisis”
“theres no such thing as a free lunch” (someone always pays)
Youtube video:
Milton friedman - Your greed or their greed?
Keynes was his enemy -> though gov intervention was good.
1989 break of soviet union -> switch to capitalism -> shock therapy (quick)
Nl neoliberal movement
-globalization
-industrialization Bible 90’s to
-Free market 2000/2005
-Privatizing
-Less welfare state
-Less government
Then criticism:
Environment, big billionaires/companies, theres a growing monopoly, expedization (?), lack
of consumer consumption(marketing).
Now swinging back to more welfare/ stronger government. To cope with all these
issues.
Difficult bc These are a lot of international problems, further individualization,
digitalization
East is becoming more dominant. -> ideas valuea ideologies also more threatened (no
longer universally seen as the best) -> could be crisis of democracy. Theres a little empty
ideology, difference between right left less obvious
Some people say we need a whole new social contract. Gent personally believes we should
need ideological innovation (new political philosophers)
