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