Philosophy

Choose five passages (1-4 sentences in" rel="nofollow">in length) from Michel Foucault (pp. 380-390). You may choose from those offered here or from others from the readin" rel="nofollow">ings from Michel Foucault (pp. 380-390). For each passage write a substantive brief essay explain" rel="nofollow">inin" rel="nofollow">ing the passage’s meanin" rel="nofollow">ing in" rel="nofollow">in light of Foucault’s views as presented in" rel="nofollow">in the larger readin" rel="nofollow">ing selection. 1- “There was a steady proliferation of discourses concerned with sex – specific discourses, different from one another both by their form and by their object: a discursive ferment that gathered momentum from the eighteenth century onward.” (Foucault, p. 383) 2- “This scheme for transformin" rel="nofollow">ing sex in" rel="nofollow">into discourse had been devised long before in" rel="nofollow">in an ascetic and monastic settin" rel="nofollow">ing.” (Foucault, p. 384) 3- “What is peculiar to modern societies, in" rel="nofollow">in fact, is not that they consigned sex to a shadow existence, but that they dedicated themselves to speakin" rel="nofollow">ing of it ad in" rel="nofollow">infin" rel="nofollow">initum, while exploitin" rel="nofollow">ing it as the secret.” (Foucault, p. 385) 4- Explain" rel="nofollow">in at least two of the followin" rel="nofollow">ing “prin" rel="nofollow">incipal features” Foucault describes in" rel="nofollow">in common conceptions of power: “the negative relation,” “the in" rel="nofollow">insistence of the rule,” “the cycle of prohibition,” “the logic of censorship,” “the uniformity of the apparatus.” (Foucault, p. 386) 5- “…power is tolerable only on condition that it mask a substantial part of itself. Its success is proportional to its ability to hide its own mechanisms.” (Foucault, p. 387) 6- “…power must be understood in" rel="nofollow">in the first in" rel="nofollow">instance as the multiplicity of force relations immanent in" rel="nofollow">in the sphere in" rel="nofollow">in which they operate and which constitute their own organization.” (Foucault, p. 387) 7- “Power is not somethin" rel="nofollow">ing that is acquired, seized, or shared, somethin" rel="nofollow">ing that one holds on to or allows to slip away; power is exercised from in" rel="nofollow">innumerable poin" rel="nofollow">ints, in" rel="nofollow">in the in" rel="nofollow">interplay of non- egalitarian and mobile relations.” (Foucault, p. 388) 8-“Power comes from below; that is, there is no bin" rel="nofollow">inary and all-encompassin" rel="nofollow">ing opposition between rulers and ruled at the root of power relations, and servin" rel="nofollow">ing as a general matrix – no such duality extendin" rel="nofollow">ing from the top down and reactin" rel="nofollow">ing on more and more limited groups to the very depths of the social body.” (Foucault, p. 388) 9- “Power is everywhere; not because it embraces everythin" rel="nofollow">ing, but because it comes from everywhere.” (Foucault, p. 388) 10- “Should we turn the expression around, then, and say that politics is war pursued by another means?” (Foucault, p. 388) 11- “Power relations are both in" rel="nofollow">intentional and non-subjective. If in" rel="nofollow">in fact they are in" rel="nofollow">intelligible, this is not because they are the effect of another in" rel="nofollow">instance that “explain" rel="nofollow">ins” them, but rather because they are imbued, through and through, with calculation: there is no power that is exercised without a series of aims and objectives. But this does not mean that it results from the choice or decision of an in" rel="nofollow">individual subject…” (Foucault, p. 388) 12- “Where there is power, there is resistance, and yet, or rather consequently, this resistance is never in" rel="nofollow">in a position of exteriority in" rel="nofollow">in relation to power.” (Foucault, p. 389)