Michel Foucault, Technologies of The Self | Four Types of Technologies | Philosophy Core Concepts

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This is a video in my new Core Concepts series -- designed to provide students and lifelong learners a brief discussion focused on one main concept from a classic philosophical text and thinker.
This Core Concept video focuses on Michel Foucault's short piece "Technologies of the Self", and discusses specifically the four types of technology he distinguishes early on in the work - those of production, sign-systems, power, and the self.
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Studying for my PhD in sociology and got told to read up on technologies... Baffling at first, but this video has been very helpful!! Thanks a lot ❤

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[@RobinHerzig]

Wish Foucault would've used the term ‘systems’ instead of ‘technologies’ I understand his work was all pre-digital era, but it's hard not to think of tech, when using that term generically today. Systems, seems to me, is a broader yet simpler use of language as a descriptor. But IDK maybe that's just me

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I’m sure you can handle him using a term. If you can’t, maybe don’t complain about it here

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Philosophers will often use a term that fits their conception of a thing, rather than the normal use of the term. So "technologies" (I think) is meant to imply that it's a tool for doing something, but that it's also been designed itself. So within the "technology" metaphor, a screwdriver is a tool that does a thing, and someone designed the screwdriver. It's both created and a creator. Unpacking the metaphor, the self is an entity that does things in the world, and something that we constantly redesign and edit. That same for language, or politics, education, and so on.

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