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  • Pre-reading Notes

  • Impressions

    • Several senior students in my seminar recommended this book.
    • I really like the concept of deconstruction, especially Derrida’s framework.
      • It feels like a name has been given to something I vaguely liked about it.
      • Through technology.
    • However, there are also points where I don’t quite agree with the criticisms and ethics presented.
    • What I don’t understand is the confusion between “doubting the assumption that one side of a binary opposition is good” and “doubting the way the binary opposition itself is constructed.”

    • Parole and écriture, I don’t understand.

Modern thought Deconstruction Derrida Deleuze

Foucault

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  • Deconstruction of society
  • Through the panoptic mechanism, norms have been internalized from being mechanisms of punishment.
    • Disciplinary training
  • As a method of macro-level governance, there is biopolitics vs disciplinary training.
    • Disciplinary training controls the ethics of human behavior by controlling their goals.
    • Biopolitics controls human behavior mechanically by changing the structure.
  • Deviance and madness were not labeled before modern times.
    • When labels are applied, binary oppositions arise, and at the same time, an ethics of “one side is good” emerges.
      • This ethics is introduced into society through disciplinary training and biopolitics for governance.
    • Foucault questions whether the world where deviance, like in ancient times, was not considered “bad” is better.