Michel Foucault's Theory Of Power

Why we study power, the question of subject

Michel Foucault’s main goal is not to try to define the phenomenon of power or nor to elaborate the foundations of such types of analysis. His main objectives are to create a mode by which a human being made self as a subject in our culture. In this article, he has dealt with three modes of objectification, which a human being into the subject. the first is Mode of inquiry, which gives the status of science. Eg the objectivating of the productive subject, subjects who labors for economic and wealth analysis.

The second is , “Dividing practices”, means the subject is either divided from others or inside himself. Eg- mad and the sane, sick and the healthy etc.

The third is,how a way human being

This article engages with the theories of Foucault and Agamben and focuses on their work on resistance. It studies the different construction to the concept of individual, which termed into singularity or life itself. In Agamben theory, dispositive represents the power relation network, articulates how a power not based upon classical conception of sovereignty is a key term in Focualt thought that human being is transformed into both an object and subject, on power relation. Agamben also focus on that how dispositif specially operates as an apparatus to control humanity. In analyzing the term dispositif Foucault and Agamben are look like offering two different pproaches for considering of free social life from the binds of oppressive social

Not only, therefore, prisons, mad houses, the panopticon, schools, confession, factories, disciplines, juridical measures, and so forth (whose connection with power is in a certain sense evident), but also the pen, writing, literature, philosophy, agriculture, cigarettes, navigation, computers, cellular telephones and – why not – language itself, which is perhaps the most ancient of