I have only recently started to read Michel Foucault.
Question 1: Is all individuality and subjectivity a product of modern day power systems or only a certain kind of individuality?
e.g. the panopticon creates through the gaze, disciplined body’s who are self policing and self conscious. Regulating and correcting themselves with the knowledge of the norm in order to become a healthy balanced individual of society.
Is this not the creation of a specific kind of individuality?
Question 2: How can one free himself from pre-conditioned rationality or escape the effects of power that create who we are, if that is a possibility?
Could one not use the same power techniques like discipline, knowledge, self consciousness etc. to do the opposite of what is expected from one. To create ones own values, reality or truth?
2007-12-24
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