10/22/2015:
Critical Genealogies Meeting Notes
Questions:
1. What constitutes the convergence of a
multiplicity of minor processes? p. 138
2. How does Foucault’s methodology
interrupt the genetic time of disciplinary power? P. 160
3. p. 139 “Discipline is a political anatomy
of detail.” – IS there a connection btw F’s method and
the affective disposition which he
brings to it? Reciprocity
4. p. 160 Disciplinary methods:
dynamism, specific chunks of time established; how much consistency and how
much dynamism?
5. p. 152 “time penetrates the body and
with it all the meticulous controls of power” – How does this relate to
previous regime, is this a new form of how torture operated on the body in the
old regime?
6. p. 156 Can we understand disciplinary
power as a link that illuminates nature and the natural imaginary -à biopower à
cellular analytic, how is nature being mobilized? NATURE
7. p. 169 parenthetical – Making a link
between military and rise of bourgeoisie? Or not.
8. Composition -à at two levels, bodies /// and forces
----
With regard to question 8, use of the
word machine……
……..
Distribution ----
Composition of forces ---- meta-, second
order, relation between parts and wholes
What would produce a necessity to
reconfigure the machine?
162. economic demand, need for maximum
efficiency.
How would a specific economic need …. Enter
into the machine.
Mutate the machine, vs what makes it
run.
What would make it mutate? ---- and what
is the relationship btw the spatial disciplining and the temporal?
The organic as a component of the ‘machine’ or mechanization –
Organic/mechanization relationship, is
one a limit on the other?…..
What is his sense of ‘Organic’? p. 167
Is ‘organic’ the same as ‘natural body’?
– reciprocity of bodies – p. 164
Mechanical/machinic -à the natural bodies
Concepts/ vs. analytical categories à ‘power’ would be an analytical category
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