Where there is power...
the power relations between individuals cannot be reduced to...
From Foucault's perspective...
The power in action is the relations between...
the power is more like something that acts and operates in a certain way...
The disciplinary structure described by Foucault is the panopticon...
From Althusser's perspective...
The French thinker examines how discipline, as a type of self-regulation...
Foucault investigated the problem of power...
Michel Foucault thinks that power is not concentrated...
...master-slave or oppressor-victim relations
...but diffuse throughout the whole society.
...encouraged by institutions, becomes the norm in modern societies.
...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.
... there is resistence
... an architectural structure revealed by Jeremy Bentham as a way to arrange prisoners
...it's more a strategy than a possession.
...the individual and the society, especially its institutions.
...from a critical and histical viewppoint.
...power is not something that can be owned, but rather something that acts and manifests itself in a certain way.