Technologies of Power

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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.

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Foucault

Foucault > Archaeological Research, Discourse, Subjugated Knowledge, Technologies of Power, Technologies of the Self

Key Terms

Regime of Accumulation >

• Accumulation
• Mechanisms of Compliance
• Rocket Scientists' Guide to Money and the Economy
• Social Class
• System Agent
• Unfettered Accumulation

Technologies of Power >

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

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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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