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