Ten Weeks on Foucault: Powerful Ideas and Practical Applications September 20, 2012

It will be argued that Foucault gives an analysis of political power and its institutions, which are crucial to understanding the world we now live in. Foucault shows that control over knowledge, that is what we know or believe, makes us what we are. One of the most important mechanisms of making modern individuals is the process of normalisation in which divisions are established between groups such as sane and insane; criminal and law abiding; diseased and healthy. We will then apply ideas such as: bio-power; technologies of the self; surveillance to some contemporary situations and see if Foucaults ideas illuminate our social understanding. Details of this event may be subject to change. Please visit http://cce.sydney.edu.au/course/fpia for more information or to register.

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