1. Name :- Goswami Mahirpari C.
Roll no :- 21
Topic name :- Michael Foucault Power and
Knowledge
Paper name :- The Cultural Studies
Submitted to :- Department of English
E - mail :- goswamimahirpari786@gmail.com
Enrollment no :- 20691084201180021
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4. uThe way power structure depend upon structure
Of knowledge
uArts, Science, Medicine, Demographic
uFoucault argues that certain authorities who
possess power in society produce knowledge
about those who lack power.
uSuch a system of knowledge is called
"discourse".
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6. u'Corrective' =====> 'Actual enforcement of
power / process.
uAuthorities' ======> 'What they think is right.
u'Discourse'========> ' Subject'.
7. u Discourse and knowledge produce categories
of subjects who are then treated in particular
ways : -
1.) Immoral "remedied " by priests
2.) Criminal "jailed" by " law "
3.) Sick " treated " by "doctors"
u Knowledge and classifications system's such
as medicine , the law or religion are therefore
modes of social control .
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10. u“People who lack the
power to determine
there lives and futures
are said to lack
agency”. They are
called “Subaltern”.
uWhy lower caste people
have not right to get
education.????????
