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They lost me at "Foucault raises the issue".

• ozorOzora 6y ago
  I think they are referring to the idea of "apparatus" from Michel Foucault. From wikipedia: "I shall call an apparatus literally anything that has in some way the capacity to capture, orient, determine, intercept, model, control, or secure the gestures, behaviors, opinions, or discourses of living beings." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispositif https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispositif
  • socialcooling 6y ago
    Actually I just meant to refer to Foucault's analysis of Bentham's panopticon prison concept.
• nemo44x 6y ago
  I know what you're saying but you shouldn't just dismiss all of his thoughts. Yes, certain academics have abused, used, or selectively cherry picked pieces of this philosophy, in part, for turning academics into activism, but he'd probably turn in his grave regarding a lot of these developments. I mean he's against any sort of meta-narrative, for example. I mean in many ways people using post-modernism as a foundation for their "Theory" sort of make his point about discipline and punishment. I think his ideas there are pretty straight on and prophetic of what this article is talking about. Cancel-culture, call outs, etc. are creating a cold culture of obedience and conformity and of course we are seeing these things seep into social institutions like schools and younger and younger ages. I'd agree that a lot of what he thinks about "knowledge" and "power" and are pretty wrong and dangerous. His ideas on "Bio-power" and other criticisms of science and liberalism in general are trash. The idea that everything is about "power" and "power relations" is garbage. People have taken these bad ideas too far IMO.