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politicalintermediate5 steps · ~65 min

Power Isn't Just Held—It's Everywhere

Michel Foucault shows how institutions like the prison and medicine produce knowledge and control. You'll work through disciplinary power, the Panopticon, and biopower, and ask what that means for surveillance and resistance.

Steps

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  2. Text Explore· ~10 min

    Panopticism

    The Panopticon and self-surveillance.

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  3. Argument Map· ~12 min

    Mapping power and knowledge

    How knowledge enables control and vice versa.

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  4. Dialogue· ~12 min

    Foucault vs liberals

    Debate freedom and power.

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  5. Reflection· ~8 min

    Surveillance now

    Apply the ideas to the digital age.

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