Feb 23, 2025
Michel Foucault from A to Z.
War is certainly not a central entry in Foucault’s vocabulary. Nevertheless, in his lectures “Society Must Be Defended”, he deals extensively with the hypothesis that the model of war is well suited to analyzing the effects of power. In the end, however, he concludes that this model is not necessarily suitable for this purpose. The video makes it clear that Foucault also referred to the model of war in Discipline and Punish. By means of this model, he examines concrete practices of discipline. The interaction between body and weapon provides a telling analogy to today’s relations between humans and machines.
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