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1
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Hegemony:

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  • process of moral and intellectual leadership through which dominated or subordinate classes consent to their own domination by ruling class
  • as opposed to being simply forced or coerced into accepting inferior positions
2
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Sovereign power:

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  • supreme ruler with ultimate power
  • traditional understanding of power
  • someone has power and they can use it to influence even force people
  • whoever has this power is the sovereign (they can do whatever they want with it)
3
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Power/knowledge (discursive power):

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/

4
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Disciplinary (discursive power):

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  • internalization ensures compliance
  • creates dolicity inits subjects
  • no one holds it
5
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Docility (discursive power):

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/

6
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Hegemony explains how ____ works beyond just resorting to ____ ____.

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  • domination

- violent force

7
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In hegemony, through _____, domination is achieved.

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consent

8
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____ of violent/serious consequences can be enough to ensure consent. No actual application of ____ needed.

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  • threat

- force

9
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Hegemony was originally used to describe ___ ____.

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class relations (eg. working class dominated by bourgeoisie class)

10
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Consent to own oppression leads to …

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Foucault’s thoughts on power

11
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Describe how panopticon design illustrates disciplinary power:

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  • surveillance
  • partitioning of space
  • examination
  • timetables
  • nothing actually keeping them in but fear of consequence keeps them in
12
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How is disciplinary power exercised?

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in small, everyday behaviours by everyone

13
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Discourses:

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sets of interconnected texts that produce meaning

14
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Discourse constructs the _____. It defines and produces the _____ of our _____.

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  • topic
  • objects
  • knowledge
15
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Discourse governs the way that a topic can be meaningfully _____ about and ______ about.

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  • talked

- reasoned

16
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Discourse influences how ideas are put into ____ and used to _____ the _____ of others.

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  • practice
  • regulate
  • conduct
17
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Truth is not …. it is…

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  • out in the world

- the effect of the power of discourse

18
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Discourse marks some things as…

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inside the true and other things as outside the true

19
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____ _____ ____ are a powerful consequence of discourse. They appear _____ or just the way things are done.

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  • common sense beliefs

- natural

20
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Knowledge is power =

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  • knowledge can be translated into power over someone (blackmail)
  • treats the 2 as separate (there can be power without knowledge: use a gun not blackmail)
  • sovereign power
21
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Discursive power: _____ is _____. There is no _____.

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  • knowledge is power and power is knowledge

- translation

22
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______ and _____ are very powerful discourses.

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  • neoliberalism

- capitalism

23
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Neoliberalism and capitalism are sets of _____ texts (_____, _____, _____, ____) that produce their own ___ _____.

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  • interconnected
  • social
  • economic
  • political
  • ethical
  • truth effects
24
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Neoliberalism and capitalism are powerful due to the ____ and ______ of these effects.

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  • size

- pervasiveness

25
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The more obvious something is to you or the greater the level of truth a statement has for you, the more ____ has been exercise to____ that truth.

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  • power

- produce

26
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Not all truth effects are ____.

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good

27
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How to resist bad truth effect with sovereign power:

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  • refuse to do what the person is trying to make you do

- you successfully resist as long as you don’t do it

28
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Why doesn’t that technique work with discursive power?

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  • it’s always already present

- you cannot get outside discourse

29
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Technologies of the self:

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  • critical awareness
  • imagining/creating a new sense of self
  • developing practices to take care of that self