Foucault and the theories of power and identity

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September 21, 2016

 

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It is in this sense that power works as an anonymous force, provoking free agents to act in ways that make it difficult for them to do otherwise. Foucault's theory of power "revolves around indirect techniques of self-regulation which induce appropriate forms of behaviour."1, we are free to govern ourselves...
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In the absence of an authority figure we will automatically restrain our behaviour, there is no "hand" of power that pushes us all into line, only an acknowledgement that we all work within a framework of choices, that are ultimately subjected to influence and direction, but that we ourselves have the final say in the way in which we operate...
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