Chapter 2.5: Michel Foucault, power

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  • Опубликовано: 18 окт 2017
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  • @Mark-te7xw
    @Mark-te7xw 5 лет назад +775

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    @rithikacarol3328 5 лет назад +129

    God bless your soul. This is so easy to understand. It’s 3 AM and I’m able to clearly understand despite being tired

    • @getsmartquick
      @getsmartquick 2 года назад +1

      So basically Foucault is advocating soft power with the guiles of feminine charm if I truly understand this correctly

    • @44aske
      @44aske Год назад

      @@getsmartquick Correct

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    • @ianmcdermott5215
      @ianmcdermott5215 3 года назад +1

      Can someone please help me on a essay I am writing, In my essay I have been tasked with analysing an organisation operations from a postmodernist perspective using a theme of power as context, I have talked a lot about the repressive power (as mentioned in the essay)so managers exploiting workers, but not so much the normalizing power. What would be an example of this from an organisations point of view?

  •  5 лет назад +9

    Actually, most things we can find online about Foucault are rather superficial. You did a great job explaining Foucault's views about how power works through many examples you gave. Thanks for that, it's much appreciated.

  • @sebastianmartinez4504
    @sebastianmartinez4504 5 лет назад +18

    Thank you Victor. Curently going over Foucault in law school. You explain this philosophy so much better than our textbook and our lecturer combined. Great delivery.

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    @bongamkhize2108 5 лет назад +15

    This just rescued my whole paper...thank you.

  • @joes.2111
    @joes.2111 4 года назад +5

    Thank you sir!! I was looking for a video to help me explain Foucault, and until now, have only found misinformation about Foucault’s theories. Not only was this not the case with your video, you also explained it in the most useful, clear and concise terms that very few professors could.

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    @bradleygardener1254 5 лет назад +13

    wow my dude - trying to get this a digestable way for students - this hit the spot

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    @vikrantvijit1436 3 года назад +1

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  • @henkjanssen1252
    @henkjanssen1252 5 лет назад +11

    Victor we love you.
    It's funny, when I was an undergrad I was obliged to follow this guy's course, and it got lost completely on 19 year old me. Now, years later, I come back here out of free will and I can appreciate much more of what Foucault was trying to get at. These videos are very helpful.

    • @juancmf9634
      @juancmf9634 9 месяцев назад +1

      out of free will?
      jk xD

  • @zirongliu1703
    @zirongliu1703 Год назад +1

    This is one of the clearest videos on philosophy I've ever watched.

  • @kamildemir4337
    @kamildemir4337 6 лет назад +10

    I have learnt so much for my political sociology exam. Thanks a lot guys :)

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    @dulomdampu2902 6 лет назад +7

    The best you tube teacher i hve ever came across.this is the way a youtube teacher shld deliver a speech ..lucidly and articulately..thank you sir... Kindly make more video on sociology 😍🤗😘

  • @LTDsaint15
    @LTDsaint15 3 года назад +1

    Hats off to you and your colleagues! Thank you very much!

  • @terrymcternan6917
    @terrymcternan6917 Год назад

    This has really helped me in my Critical Understanding of Power within Communities as part of my 2nd year BACD undergraduate course at UofG. Thank you 😊

  • @mrs.albertcamus7930
    @mrs.albertcamus7930 6 лет назад +9

    This is GOLD!!! Thank you so much

  • @ibtisamelayan3163
    @ibtisamelayan3163 3 года назад +3

    This is amazing. You made Foucault easier to understand. Thank you.

  • @dolphinka
    @dolphinka 2 года назад +3

    Thank you for the lecture, so much easier to undertand than the uni lecture I have attended. It makes me think about what's happening now with the pandemic. Back in March 2020, the normalizing power was in place and people were compliant with the lockdown and caring so much about themselves and others. However, with the goverments mix messages, and as a result loss of trust, created a need for repressive power with the scaremongering and discussions about mandating medical treatments (i.e. vaccination).

  • @surbhihandajindal793
    @surbhihandajindal793 6 лет назад +135

    this scholar was seriously headache for me! but you ,, have made things very simple ... thank u so much dude......

    • @SvartVargSkog
      @SvartVargSkog 5 лет назад +13

      foucault is a headache and insult for every intelligent person. that happens :)

    • @xxx6555
      @xxx6555 5 лет назад +8

      Foucault is difficult, but not that difficult. Especially the book on which the video was based, Discipline and Punish, is not that difficult. If you insist you even couldn't understand this book, I suggest you test your IQ.

    • @superduperjew
      @superduperjew 5 лет назад +43

      @@xxx6555 anyone that appeals to iq probably lacks it

    • @insertintube
      @insertintube 5 лет назад +24

      @@xxx6555 - IQ test does not produce nor indicate subjective truth, but rather it is just another category of discursive/normalizing power. It is a reduction of all possible questions we can ask about intelligence into a specific and narrow discourse that is shaped and dominated by a particular Episteme.

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    @TheDoveandme 2 года назад +1

    I have listened to many talks but you explains simply. Thanks

  • @LucKy-kd7fs
    @LucKy-kd7fs 3 года назад +1

    Very nicely and simply explained. I saw many videos related to this but they only used heavy words and made me even more confused than I already was.

  • @monirashormin528
    @monirashormin528 2 года назад

    I never thought understanding Foucault is so easy. Thanks for the 9-minute video.

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    @wombatpuppy4436 2 года назад +1

    This was the best video of Foucault I saw in the last few days

  • @TheBigFella
    @TheBigFella 5 месяцев назад

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  • @divankarsingh
    @divankarsingh 2 года назад

    Wow. Thank you for this illumination.

  • @apophenomenon
    @apophenomenon 2 года назад +1

    I share this video every time in class pretty much every semester.

  • @kokocrisis8882
    @kokocrisis8882 5 лет назад +2

    A very simple yet clear explanation.

  • @akhilife_t
    @akhilife_t 5 лет назад +9

    Reminds me of Sartre... "the self is the self to others. Without others there is no self."

    • @malongdu
      @malongdu 2 года назад

      Where did you find that quote?

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  • @thebluechipinvestor
    @thebluechipinvestor 4 года назад +2

    Thanks a lot!! You really simplified Foucault for me!

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    @rakheegahlyan1054 6 лет назад +7

    Wonderfully explained! Huge thanks and lots of best wishes, Dear!!

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    @aletheiajak6373 5 лет назад +3

    The best explanation ever! Thank's man.

  • @eleventeenable
    @eleventeenable 3 года назад +1

    Very simply and nicely explained! thanks, It's finally clear to me

  • @eleftheriosepikuridis9110
    @eleftheriosepikuridis9110 2 года назад +2

    Wait this man didn't only teach me Kant but now also Foucault?! What a Hero

  • @brandonking2967
    @brandonking2967 6 лет назад +2

    Thanks for this video! I was trying to find a third theorist for my essay on power and you have made up my mind. His view on power is very unique, yet its use almost seems common sense once you are aware of it.

  • @LunaMoon84
    @LunaMoon84 4 года назад

    honestly i was scrunching my head so much about this. Thanks

  • @yuval8804
    @yuval8804 3 года назад +1

    Excellent explanation and delivery!

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    @despoofficial 10 месяцев назад

    very easy to listen to. love it

  • @AadivasiKnowledgeResearch8725
    @AadivasiKnowledgeResearch8725 6 месяцев назад

    Watching your video from India🇮🇳. Precise and to the point explanation. Watched others' video too on Foucault, but after watching your video I realized that those videos were like beating around the bush.

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    @acelyabal5969 2 года назад +1

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    Thanks man. You're better than an entire semester of classes

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    @shahbazhussain7712 2 года назад

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    @bandatarana 3 года назад +1

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    @PhilipHardie-de7ji День назад

    the lecture is amazing and inspiring so much! thanks a lot!

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    @sinbadthesailor1668 5 лет назад +2

    Thanks. This is very concise and succinct.

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    @liliako311 4 года назад +2

    just awesome lecture with great examples 😍

  • @nainakundra347
    @nainakundra347 Год назад

    Beautiful video! I really understood this concept

  • @imkongjamir8143
    @imkongjamir8143 2 года назад +2

    I somehow understood White's metahistory and Foucault's theory of power courtesy your lectures!

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    @dharanisingha8734 2 года назад

    wonderful time understanding Foucault.. 👍

  • @beyondias
    @beyondias 6 лет назад +4

    Thank you so much Sir....

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    @oke-tilltiarks83 Год назад

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    @khushbuseth8539 3 года назад +1

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    I can't thank you more , you made it perfectly easy . I couldn't make a head nor a tail out of it before this video

  • @jlupus8804
    @jlupus8804 3 года назад +2

    When he says “nobody’s free”, I think the more correct approach would be “no one is completely free”. There’s a lot of taboos we can break and still keep our jobs or stay out of jail despite doing so.
    And we all hold some power over other people, even if we don’t realize it.

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    @fionabeatrizjao2629 3 года назад +1

    This helped a lot. Thank you!

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    @carstenhaderer1470 4 года назад +1

    very nicely explained !

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    @Vipashayana. 4 года назад

    Love, gratitude and regards from India 🇮🇳❤️

  • @subekshadahal1424
    @subekshadahal1424 4 года назад

    Really a clearcut idea about Michiel Foucault: Knowledge and power. Repressive power and normalizing power. he focuses on normalizing power instead of repressive power.

  • @Gala153
    @Gala153 2 года назад +1

    That is great lecture,thank you so much!

  • @themolkbrotherful
    @themolkbrotherful 3 года назад +1

    The most useful vid to understand foucault, danku wel meneer !

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    @kartab5397 5 лет назад +1

    Thanks so so much...... Simply explainef

  • @WalkerHK
    @WalkerHK 3 года назад +1

    This guy is pretty good at delivering a lecture!

  • @revup4183
    @revup4183 Год назад

    Well explained. Thank you.

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    @NasrinSultana-dd8no 2 года назад

    It is really very helpful. Thank you so much.

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  • @santiagomendoza4381
    @santiagomendoza4381 4 года назад

    ¡Muchas gracias!

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    @rohanmathew5728 2 года назад

    Can consider exemplifying even more.

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    @linkachuganimer01 10 месяцев назад

    love it!

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    @nilukshiniravichandran2683 2 года назад +1

    Thank you! It helps for my exam.

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    @thereover5438 6 лет назад +2

    thank you!

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    @muhammadibrahim8312 Год назад

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    @aleenapaul9427 5 лет назад +1

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  • @pieternaude1469
    @pieternaude1469 6 лет назад +27

    Brilliant. Thank you so much. Was dying under the complexity of Foucault's discourse. I would just suggest that you substitute 'science' for 'knowledge' in the last part of the video. This is because knowledge can apply to a broader field of human concerns which is why Foucault specifically uses this term.

    • @VictorGijsbers
      @VictorGijsbers 6 лет назад +5

      You mean substituting 'knowledge' for 'science', right? I agree that that would be completely correct. I chose to talk about science here because the video is part of a course on the philosophy of the human sciences; if it had been a stand-alone video about Foucault, I would probably have used the broader term.

    • @pieternaude1469
      @pieternaude1469 6 лет назад

      I completely understand. So you were applying Foucault's theory to a very specific set of discourses. Going to recommend your video to the students in my course and tutorial group!!

    • @writinghealth
      @writinghealth 6 лет назад

      Naude, are you in South Africa or Namibia? Your last name is Afrikaans, unless it is also Dutch.

    • @pieternaude1469
      @pieternaude1469 6 лет назад

      Haha yes I am indeed South African and I am fluent in Afrikaans. However, Naude is a surname of French Huguenot descent.

    • @writinghealth
      @writinghealth 6 лет назад

      +Pieter Naude a bon. are you teaching at UCT my alma mater? i woild love to have a digital, techno mediated coffee with you
      would you like google chat? my email is writinghealth @gmail.com

  • @thenowchurch6419
    @thenowchurch6419 4 года назад +1

    Good job, you are a great communicator.
    I must challenge Foucault's views on power though.
    All human power over other humans is repressive, whether normalizing or not.
    We do not demand that the cashier at the grocery attend to us at check out and we do not threaten her, but there is always the implied threat that if dissatisfied we could get her in trouble or fired.
    I say human power is a threat, whether explicit or implicit.

  • @muhammadsholeh6565
    @muhammadsholeh6565 3 года назад +1

    Thanks for your explainations, it helps me a lot. But i want to ask which Foucault's book discusses about normalizing and repressive power.
    Thanks

  • @valibosoi
    @valibosoi 5 лет назад

    Thank you!

  • @erinwolf1563
    @erinwolf1563 2 года назад

    I hardly like philosophy videos but I just had to like yours... I came here because i have exams today on this complex topic but you made it look too easy and interesting... I'm almost forgetting that I'm studying this for exam, its too interesting 😂😂😂...

  • @teydam_2020
    @teydam_2020 3 года назад

    Thank you.

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    @soniasofia2020 3 года назад

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    @silpa__3740 4 года назад +1

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  • @eliteenglishlearningcenter3101
    @eliteenglishlearningcenter3101 3 года назад +1

    He describes power of two levels: Empirical and theoretical. Empirical comprises three types: sovereign, disciplinary and bio power. In theoretical power, he illustrates the features, characteristics of power and its operation. Force relation is spread throughout the society and can only be seen in interplay.

  • @marwasa
    @marwasa 5 лет назад +4

    Thank you. great explanations. clear and well spoken. well done.