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