{"id":1022,"date":"2026-08-09T18:45:58","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/pyq\/comment-on-foucaults-concept-of-power-upsc-psir-2023-0705\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T21:23:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T15:53:27","slug":"comment-on-foucaults-concept-of-power-upsc-psir-2023-0705","status":"publish","type":"psir_pyq","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/comment-on-foucaults-concept-of-power-upsc-psir-2023-0705\/","title":{"rendered":"Comment on Foucault&#8217;s concept of power."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pq-flow\">\n<div class=\"pq-flow-h\">Flow snapshot <em>\u2014 how the answer moves<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p1\"><span>Intro routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 1<\/i> Dominant view = sovereign, top-down, repressive <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> <b class=\"pq-sc\">Foucault<\/b> overturns it<\/p>\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 2<\/i> <b class=\"pq-sc\">Foucault<\/b>\u2019s core claim = power dispersed, productive, capillary <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> \u201ccomes from everywhere\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p>Break from sovereign\/juridico-legal power <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> not from one centre <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> capillary \/ micro-physics <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> productive, not repressive <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> produces subjects, identity, norms, knowledge <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> power\/knowledge <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> truth shaped by power <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> regimes of truth <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> works via discourse, discipline, surveillance <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> <i>Discipline and Punish<\/i>: torture <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> disciplinary power (schools, prisons, hospitals) <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> Panopticon <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> self-surveillance <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> normalisation replaces force <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> power presupposes freedom <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> resistance internal to power<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p><b class=\"pq-sc\">Habermas<\/b>: no normative ground to judge injustice <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> <b class=\"pq-sc\">Lukes<\/b>: neglects class and economic structures<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p4\"><span>Conclusion routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 1<\/i> Power moves from a thing possessed to a relation that produces us<\/p>\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 2<\/i> Despite the critiques, <b class=\"pq-sc\">Foucault<\/b> reset how power is studied \u2014 knowledge, surveillance, identity<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"pyq_year":[34],"pyq_marks":[38],"pyq_topic":[52],"pyq_paper":[33],"class_list":["post-1022","psir_pyq","type-psir_pyq","status-publish","hentry","pyq_year-34","pyq_marks-10-marks","pyq_topic-power-authority-legitimacy","pyq_paper-paper-1"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/psir_pyq"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4616,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/1022\/revisions\/4616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pyq_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_year?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_marks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_marks?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_topic?post=1022"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_paper","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_paper?post=1022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}