Introduction to Michel Foucault: Power, Knowledge, and the Self

[@YaussieChick]

I think you did an excellent job in helping me getting a clearer understanding of the influential sociologist.

[@jameskabia5848]

Apt and precise summary of Foucault's concept. Many thanks for sharing this!

[@justwalkingaround3455]

super duper helpful video

[@katiemiaana]

Thank you, really helped me understand Foucault.

[@DrGearityWine]

You're welcome. Thanks for viewing and leaving a comment. Let me know what else interests you and I'll see what I can do!

[@metacritiqebyrajan11]

@@DrGearityWine sir can you make a video on Foucault and hedot philosophy as a way of life, the influence of Hellenistic thought on Foucault ideas.

[@laruedevries6466]

Brilliant .. a great explanation from my favorite sociology superstar. Foucault :)

[@ashleygarcia9832]

This was great! I will be reading Foucault this fall and this was a helpful way to introduce me to his work.

[@DrGearityWine]

Thanks, Ashley. Let me know how your readings go. I can create more videos, etc. I just posted this one for fun and to see if anybody would watch it!

[@revup4183]

Wonderful job! Many thanks for sharing 👏👏

[@ameliadeering8843]

thank you so so much for this video, I have an essay to write on the interrelations between knowledge, power and subjectivity in Foucault's work - this video was perfect!

[@DrGearityWine]

Wow. Talk about good timing. Good luck with the essay. How knowledge and power affects who we are, what we think, our actions...and don't forget, technologies of discipline are the more coercive controlling forces while technologies of self are the more self-aware, critical ways to develop an understanding of one's self and ethics.

[@sonamgurungpazzung3085]

Thank you for understanding the very really way

[@snickerzzzb.m9276]

Wouldn't it be knowledge first, self- second and power- last? I mean if there's no knowledge, where would power and the 'self' be at? Haven't seen the whole video, just the beginning but it raised a question :) *Adding while watching- About 'actions', if you say that 'power' is first, that would mean that the person is already in control of their action and of theirknowledge. When a baby is born, he not she asks. They simply know what they need, right? So when does 'knowledge' of reaction truly becomes a part of that 'power' you speak of? You're right about that we're unaware of our (self) actions, but that is because we're unaware of self knowledge. Self awareness.. Knowledge is power. Self knowledge is more powerful than just being alive for no reason. Knowledge is - the realization of thought, speech, and action. It does have aspect on living forms. Knowledge is a way of or to magnetize, whether others believe or not. Theoretically, as you said, any one can have a theory. But what should come first? What is or might, or should be more important than the other?

[@DrGearityWine]

Ah, if I understand you correctly, that knowledge would be primary before its effects on the self occurred? I'd argue that we're born into a "discursive field" of power-knowledge and its effects on the self are immediate, pre-natal even. I've not concerned my thinking to which comes first, but how knowledge, power, and self act interact. Foucault was explicit in that knowledge is not power and we should not use the terms synonymously.

[@parthamukherjee2748]

Amazing video.. thanks a lot.. pls make some more videos on Foucault..

[@OttoChenault]

I will recommend Foucault to all researchers and “ Truthers”, thanks.

[@dominiquelemoine9600]

Great starting point, thank you! I notice a lot of the comments are recent, I guess that's from us university students who are reading Foucault. :p

[@DrGearityWine]

That seems like a sensible inference, Dominique. That, and I just put the video up a few months ago :-) I need to make some more!

[@derekstark6612]

Amazing video man. I’m working on a research project regarding sports coaching leadership and this is really helping me to frame the study!

[@DrGearityWine]

You might want to check out the work of Suze Wilson! See: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1742715012455129 and here: scholar.google.com/citations?user=GS5EVvoAAAAJ&hl=en

[@derekstark6612]

Thanks Brian! Presenting tonight so I will try to read beforehand.

[@MuhammadIzzulHaq]

Very good video Brian! it is very concise and well-structured presentation! It really helped me understand some focal points in Foucault. Many thanks for creating and sharing this video.

[@kali11123]

Bro shut up

[@ferasusif]

wow. great video. thank you!

[@jdzentrist8711]

Subjectivization: This notion seems to build upon Heidegger's critique of Descartes' and "Plato's" so-called Metaphysics. Like Heidegger's critique of Humanism and (implicitly or explicitly) Liberalism/Modernity, Foucault's "subjectivization" seems to be a sweeping revolution in thinking/perspective, such that one becomes instinctively SKEPTICAL. One suspects that indeed the appearance of an societal "institution" is NOT what it appears to be. Day to day PROBLEMS, for example, personal health or employment, housing or transportation, not to mention the quality of the "professions," all of this is now subject to healthy SUSPICION. This is where the "technology of Self" as Brian puts it, becomes a positive step in the right direction. A simplicity of life, focussing on needs rather than incessant DESIRES for MORE THINGS--helps us to see what really matters. The practical side of our natures now knows that we are not alone, and that there are ways to work with people for the betterment of all.

[@krupa4438]

Helpful. Thanks

[@edthoreum7625]

4:15 subjectivation...and power.

[@husseinmohammed8654]

Thanx doc. really informative. I got a question about practical knowledge, is it better or truer than theoretical knowledge for him ?

[@DrGearityWine]

I think he might say that neither is truer, but that they're simply different discourses with varying effects, and he would encourage people to be critical of how any "discourse" emerged and what it does or can do.

[@carolleenkelmann4751]

Foucault and Governmental Managements of Sars-CoV 2 ............?

[@wezzuh2482]

You can really sense Nietzsche's influence on him.

[@DrGearityWine]

Yes, this is true. Where did you see the connection or influence in this video?

[@wezzuh2482]

@@DrGearityWine His methodology is very similar to Nietzsche's approach. He essentially does to punishment and disciplining (as well as sexuality and mental illness), what Nietsche did to values and morality. Also the whole idea of power being this ubiquitous force, is kinda Nietzschean .

[@Aydoz123]

hi brian excellent video, would you be able to share the sources for the subjectivation and subjectification? how would i start to being to compare the two in reference to the subject and power? thank you in advance

[@DrGearityWine]

Check out this book: books.google.com/books/about/Foucault_Sport_and_Exercise.html?id=trp-AgAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button#v=onepage&q&f=false and this research article: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0193723508315206 with the article having a very clear definition for you.

[@noquestionspls]

"Eight year olds, dude."

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