Maboloc, C.R.
Consumerism and the Post-9/11 Paranoia: Michel Foucault on Power, Resistance, and Critical Thought
(2015) Philosophia (United States), pp. 1-12. Article in Press.
DOI: 10.1007/s11406-015-9682-7
Abstract
This paper intends to closely examine Michel Foucault’s take on power, resistance, and critical thought in the modern state, using the market-driven consumer economy and the paranoia-induced post-9/11 national security rhetoric as background. It will argue that on both domains, knowledge as similitude comes to be represented as part of the repressive configuration in the order of things. In retracing the technology of discipline where the individual unknowingly participates in his latent subjugation, the author thinks that critical thought—one that diverts power away from the center to the peripheries is the only effective way of resistance against forms of social control and domination. © 2015 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht
Author Keywords
Critical thought; Knowledge and representation; Michel Foucault; Power and resistance; Similitude and social control
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