《Michel Foucault Key Concepts》Reading Note
PART ONE POWER
Foucault’t theory of power by Richard A. Lynch
Foucault’s analyses of power are simultaneously articulated at two levels, the empirical and the theoretical. （namely, historically and theoretically）
tradition: sovereign power–> pyramid model.
Foucault: power can be built up from the bottom of a pyramid.(reconceive)
principal 校长、院长
contract a disease 患病
inhalation 吸入
We will focus upon his most condensed and generalized presentation of power**[writing accumulation]**.
the basic characteristics of power according to Foucault’s theory: a network of force relations throughout society, relations that are characterized by resistance and which interact by means of local tactics and larger strategies. Since these characteristics serve to describe not only modern forms of power such as disciplinary power, but also earlier forms, they represent the substance of Foucault’s theory of power.
Nevertheless, he did refer to his own project as a theory: his task “is a question of forming a different grid of historical decipherment by starting from a different theory of power”
