I was reading Discipline and punish and got inspired so much that it is fascinating to see how much Butler is a Focauldian and at the same time different. I watched your video while reviewing my writing on it. It helped bring me more clarity on the subject. Your presentation is very heartfelt. Thank you
I found your channel looking for clarity on Foucault's ideas and I learned more than I came for. I look forward to the rest of your videos. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and knowledge.
I needed this video. I've been struggling with work for sometime. Don't like my current job as I find it oppressive and demoralising for both workers and service users. I finally summoned up the courage and resigned after months of sleepless nights and anxiety. Now I'm faced with the question of how do I own my career? Why am I scared to do the work I really care about. All I've known is working for someone else or an organisation. Trying to step out of that box is anxiety induced that I've even found myself longing for the docilitiy that caused so much distress. This is the reality of so many millennals and workers at large. A toxic system of co-dependancy with little to no wiggle room, especially where mountains of debt, for example, are involved.
Thank you for sharing. Yes, I agree. Since we are isolated from each other and often see each other as “competition” we become increasingly alone and dependent on the very oppressive system that we want to leave. I wish we could build not just political grassroots organizations but also collectives that offer safe spaces to people when they decide to walk out from a toxic environment in order to figure out a healthier way of life. Trust me, with all the resources at my disposal, I still have not figured out a smooth way out yet:) But I keep trying:)
@@masoodraja your response is so heart warming. I literally came back to delete this message after just learning via The School of Life episode on Michel Foucault - that he descended from long line of surgeons and extreme wealth. My initial reaction was "what does Foucault know about this plight of working people who aren't afforded the previlege of old money to cushion them in moments of uncertainty?". But after reading your response, I felt a sense of cathartic relief. I guess, I needed to acknowledge and release my pain. I remain a big fan of your work.
Thank you. I think people always forget that even those who might have been born with privilege can work in solidarity with others less fortunate. If don't believe in such possibilities, then there is no room left in life for compassion. We all read Marx and find him to be a champion of working classes, but Marx could do what he did because he had Engels supporting him. So, in the words of one of my teachers, "one does not have to be a table to understand (empathize) with a table." The question in case of Foucault should not be whether he was privileged or not, we know he was, I think the question largely is what he did with that privilege? Hang in there and fight on!
Thanks for this incredible video, sir. Since you're a postmodernist, I have a question that could greatly benefit from your insight . In India, colonialists dropped the Criminal Tribes Act, tagging many communities as naturally criminal. Before that, there was the Contagious Disease Act. These two laws made women from marginalized communities seem deviant and inherently obscene. Can you explain this using Foucault's theory? Would be a big help.
Thank you for the clear explanation. I have a question if I may. Most of the explanations of the effects of disciplinarity and other Foucault arguments are made within state/people inside national borders. Do you know of authors/thinkers who extended this to apply on international relations or on other peoples? The thing I am thinking of is the international aid and cooperation being use to create docility in people and government as done by the US and other Western nationas.
Thank you. That is a really interesting question. I think there are plenty of works that do that using other theoretical perspectives but I am not sure if anyone has used disciplinarity or governentality in IR context.
That meow stole my heart
Thank you😀 it’s my cat, Arjun, he usually hangs out with me when I am recording.
I was reading Discipline and punish and got inspired so much that it is fascinating to see how much Butler is a Focauldian and at the same time different. I watched your video while reviewing my writing on it. It helped bring me more clarity on the subject. Your presentation is very heartfelt. Thank you
Thank you so much. I am glad my work was of done use to you.
I found your channel looking for clarity on Foucault's ideas and I learned more than I came for. I look forward to the rest of your videos. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and knowledge.
Thank you and welcome.
I needed this video. I've been struggling with work for sometime. Don't like my current job as I find it oppressive and demoralising for both workers and service users. I finally summoned up the courage and resigned after months of sleepless nights and anxiety. Now I'm faced with the question of how do I own my career? Why am I scared to do the work I really care about. All I've known is working for someone else or an organisation. Trying to step out of that box is anxiety induced that I've even found myself longing for the docilitiy that caused so much distress. This is the reality of so many millennals and workers at large. A toxic system of co-dependancy with little to no wiggle room, especially where mountains of debt, for example, are involved.
Thank you for sharing. Yes, I agree. Since we are isolated from each other and often see each other as “competition” we become increasingly alone and dependent on the very oppressive system that we want to leave. I wish we could build not just political grassroots organizations but also collectives that offer safe spaces to people when they decide to walk out from a toxic environment in order to figure out a healthier way of life. Trust me, with all the resources at my disposal, I still have not figured out a smooth way out yet:) But I keep trying:)
@@masoodraja your response is so heart warming. I literally came back to delete this message after just learning via The School of Life episode on Michel Foucault - that he descended from long line of surgeons and extreme wealth. My initial reaction was "what does Foucault know about this plight of working people who aren't afforded the previlege of old money to cushion them in moments of uncertainty?". But after reading your response, I felt a sense of cathartic relief. I guess, I needed to acknowledge and release my pain. I remain a big fan of your work.
Thank you. I think people always forget that even those who might have been born with privilege can work in solidarity with others less fortunate. If don't believe in such possibilities, then there is no room left in life for compassion. We all read Marx and find him to be a champion of working classes, but Marx could do what he did because he had Engels supporting him. So, in the words of one of my teachers, "one does not have to be a table to understand (empathize) with a table." The question in case of Foucault should not be whether he was privileged or not, we know he was, I think the question largely is what he did with that privilege? Hang in there and fight on!
Your videos are really good! The cat meow near the end was also good. Thank you!!
Thank you. Yes, it’s my cat Arjun. He is usually in the room when I am recording:))
Thank you for your helpful and illuminating explanations .
You are welcome.
Thank you for such a wonderful illustrations of these significant concepts and issues.
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Love it sir!!!
Thank you.
Very good presentation. I always talk about the panopticon (of course, borrowed from Bentham) in my social problems class.
Thank you. Yes, I just taught it last week.
Thanks for this incredible video, sir. Since you're a postmodernist, I have a question that could greatly benefit from your insight . In India, colonialists dropped the Criminal Tribes Act, tagging many communities as naturally criminal. Before that, there was the Contagious Disease Act. These two laws made women from marginalized communities seem deviant and inherently obscene. Can you explain this using Foucault's theory? Would be a big help.
Thank you. Please read Foucault. Especially the lecture on the Abnormal. That should help you explain these laws effectively.
thank you sir.. this video really me in the journey of understanding Foucoult ..jazzakallahu khairan
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Very nice!
Thank you.
Thank you for the clear explanation. I have a question if I may. Most of the explanations of the effects of disciplinarity and other Foucault arguments are made within state/people inside national borders. Do you know of authors/thinkers who extended this to apply on international relations or on other peoples? The thing I am thinking of is the international aid and cooperation being use to create docility in people and government as done by the US and other Western nationas.
Thank you. That is a really interesting question. I think there are plenty of works that do that using other theoretical perspectives but I am not sure if anyone has used disciplinarity or governentality in IR context.
Maybe Achille Mbembe’s Necropolitics
@@insovietrusssia Yes, or the thoughts contained in his book On the Postcolony
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Thank you.
Thank you sir
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Marvellous distinguish Professor !
Sir desperately waiting for lecture on Governmentality, Archeology and genealogy of knowledge .
@@masoodrajaProfessor waiting for lecture on Biopower and Biopolitics.
@@kinanpasha9955 Thank you. Sorry, it all depends on when I can reread those texts and then find time to record them.
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