Michel
   Foucault
Jan Kříž, Markéta Skopalová, Marianna Mikešová

Biography
•Born in 1926
•French nationality
•Homosexual
•Suicidal tendencies
•Philosophy and psychology
•Member of French Communist Party
•Political activist
•Died of AIDS in 1984
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Foucalt‘s philosophy
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•Foucault does not fit into traditional schools of thought
•He did not write just for academic audience
•He did not see himself as advancing general theory
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Concept of power and knowledge
•Prison and disciplinary institutions
•Power
•How it is exercised
•Micro-level
•Repression, violence
•Agents
•Politics of everyday life
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Discipline
•Aspects of power and knowledge which are masked
•Blockdisciplinary blocks
•Abilities, resources, relationships, communication
•Conditions:
•Ideal model: Panopticon
•Activities are planned and broken down into stages
•Efficiency
•Social control
•The role of school
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The modern school
•How does it change through years?
•Governance
•Modern power as a technique
•Normalising function
•Turning morality into a set of skills/desirable attitudes

Michel Foucault: Discipline & Punish
•1975
•changes of the Western penal system
•influenced by Nietzsche and structuralism
•power/knowledge relationship

Michel Foucault: Discipline & Punish
•Panopticon – Bentham`s power/knowledge technique
•Panopticism – social theory by Foucault
•Discipline – technique of mass control