Thursday, November 17, 2022

Foucault on the Examination - Tracking an Idea

The table below is a preliminary attempt to track Foucault's discussions of technologies of examination across some of his writings from the 1970s.

 

Form Under Analysis 

Period

Associated Mode of Power (Pouvoir)

Associated Mode of Knowldg (Savoir)

Subject

(Target/Product)

Problem (to which form is a response)

Operation (what a mode of power does)

Techniques & Technologies 

MF: Test

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Test  

(TPS, Ch. 11) 

Antiquity (Greek Antiquity) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MF: Inquiry

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inquiry 

(TPS, Ch. 11) 

Late M.A. & Early Mod 

Juridico-Sovereign 

Inquisitorial (determines who, what, where) 

?Soul? 

Locating Guilt 

?

 

Inquiry
(T&JF, xxx) 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

MF: Examination

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Examination 

(TPS, Ch. 11) 

Nineteenth Century 

Disciplinary [Power] 

(? revisit)

Individual 

Mgmt. + control of illegalism (196)

?

“Uninterrupted, graduated, and accumulated test” – “recording” 

Examination (T&JF, IV)

Nineteenth Century

Disciplinary [Power] (52)

 

Panopticism (58)

Human Sciences

Individual

(as Nrml or AbNml)

-Behavior

-Potential

Dangerousness (57)

 

·        Panopticon

·        Records

 

·        Attachment (78)

·        Correction (67)

·        Recording (84)

·        Observation

·        Classification

·        Supervision (Surveillance)

Examination (DP, III.2, 184ff.) 

Nineteenth century

Disciplinary Power (187)

Human Sciences (190) & Disciplinary Knowledge

Individual (170)

 - as Body

 - as Ab/normal

 - as Case

 

Illegalities and Delinquency (257ff.) & ‘infra-penality (178)

 

Bringing practices and institutions (as well as creating them) into a disciplinary fold that does not require the expense and excess of sovereign power (cf. 126-131)

Normalization (177)

 

Objectification (187)

 

Training (“means of correct training”) … “the chief function of the disciplinary is to ‘train’” (170).

 

… explicitated as a “productive” mode of power/knowledge (194).

·        Documentation (189), inclusive of disciplinary writing, measure, notation, registration, files, accumulation of data, categorization, calculation

·        Accountancy (180)

·        Exercise/Corrective/Repetition (179)

Beyond (tbd)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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