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Foucault's Four Technologies: | |||
• Technologies of Production (manipulating things) | |||
• Technologies of Sign Systems (manipulating meanings) | |||
• Technologies of Power (manipulating others) | |||
• Technologies of the Self (manipulating oneself) | |||
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Latest revision as of 13:36, 2 September 2025
Technologies of Power
Technologies of Power are the apparatuses that structure human conduct, objectify subjects, and channel life processes toward particular ends, specifically capitalist work systems and capitalist productivity. They operate through sovereignty, discipline, biopolitics, and governmentality. Crucially, they are inseparable from Technologies of the Self, since domination often works by recruiting individuals into self-regulation.
Concept Map
Foucault
Foucault > Archaeological Research, Discourse, Subjugated Knowledge, Technologies of Power, Technologies of the Self
Key Terms
- Accumulating Class
- Labour Value
- Mode of Accumulation
- Mode of Production
- Mode of Reproduction
- Slave Class
- Surplus Value
- System Agent
- Technologies of Power
- Unfettered Accumulation
- World System
Types > Technologies of Production, Technologies of Sign Systems, Technologies of the Self, Technologies of the Self
Mechanisms of Compliance
Mechanisms of Compliance > Mechanisms of Force, Mechanisms of Indoctrination, Mechanisms of Surveillance, Technologies of Power, Technologies of the Self, Toxic Socialization
Syncretic Terms
Related LP Terms
Non-LP Related Terms
Notes
These are Foucault's terms
Foucault's Four Technologies: • Technologies of Production (manipulating things) • Technologies of Sign Systems (manipulating meanings) • Technologies of Power (manipulating others) • Technologies of the Self (manipulating oneself)
Sovereign Power
The old form: king or state exercises power through force, law, and visible punishment (e.g., executions).
Disciplinary Power
Emerges in the 17th–18th centuries (schools, prisons, barracks, hospitals).
Works through surveillance, examination, regimentation of space/time, and “micro-powers” that produce docile bodies.
The Panopticon is its iconic diagram: visibility disciplines without constant force.
Biopower
Arises in the 18th–19th centuries alongside modern states.
Focuses on regulating life processes: birth rates, health, sexuality, hygiene, populations.
Power shifts from “the right to take life” to “the power to foster life or disallow it to the point of death.”
Governmentality
The “conduct of conduct”: techniques for steering both populations and individuals.
Power here is less about brute domination and more about shaping the field of possible actions, making people govern themselves (through norms, statistics, economics).
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