Relier Pairs Foucault's view Version en ligne Foucault's view on power relation. par Luisa Farieta 1 From Althusser's perspective... 2 Michel Foucault thinks that power is not concentrated... 3 Foucault investigated the problem of power... 4 the power relations between individuals cannot be reduced to... 5 From Foucault's perspective... 6 Where there is power... 7 The power in action is the relations between... 8 The French thinker examines how discipline, as a type of self-regulation... 9 the power is more like something that acts and operates in a certain way... 10 The disciplinary structure described by Foucault is the panopticon... ...it's more a strategy than a possession. ... there is resistence ... an architectural structure revealed by Jeremy Bentham as a way to arrange prisoners ...power is understood as the capacity of an agent to impose his will over the will of the powerless, or the ability to force them to do things they do not wish to do. ...master-slave or oppressor-victim relations ...but diffuse throughout the whole society. ...power is not something that can be owned, but rather something that acts and manifests itself in a certain way. ...from a critical and histical viewppoint. ...the individual and the society, especially its institutions. ...encouraged by institutions, becomes the norm in modern societies.