I have to disagree with Machiel here - biopower is the government of
populations. Foucault is extremely precise about the relation of
biopower to discipline in Society Must Be Defended.
The Truman Show is very interesting from a Foucauldian point of view,
but I don't see a connection to biopower in Foucault's sense. Most of
the other suggestion are, as Machiel correctly points, related to
discipline not biopower, although of course discipline is in itself
related to biopower. I don't see the relation of Dogville to biopower,
either. Seemed rather Nietzschean to me, but Foucauldian themes I
didn't discern. The fact is films are generally based at the level of
individual protagonists, meaning populations rarely figure in them as
such.
Mark
On 7/22/05, samata biswas <bsamata@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> machiel,
> i think you were referring to "The Truman Show" with Jim Carrey in the lead.
>
> On 7/21/05, M. Karskens <mkarskens@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The point of most answers is that discipline and biopolitcs almost are
> > identified. In my opinion biopolitics is much more caring, pastoral and
> > nomalizing than discipline. Dogville is a perfect example, and also the
> > film about the boy/man who lives in a tv soap (I don't remember the name)
> >
> > machiel karskens
> >
> >
> > At 18:26 19-7-2005, you wrote:
> > >Oliver Hirschbiegel's 'Das Experiment' is a good one. A take on the
> > >Stanford Prison Experiment. German with English subtitles.
> > >
> > >Simone
> > >
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> > Prof. Machiel Karskens
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> > Radboud University Nijmegen - The Netherlands
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populations. Foucault is extremely precise about the relation of
biopower to discipline in Society Must Be Defended.
The Truman Show is very interesting from a Foucauldian point of view,
but I don't see a connection to biopower in Foucault's sense. Most of
the other suggestion are, as Machiel correctly points, related to
discipline not biopower, although of course discipline is in itself
related to biopower. I don't see the relation of Dogville to biopower,
either. Seemed rather Nietzschean to me, but Foucauldian themes I
didn't discern. The fact is films are generally based at the level of
individual protagonists, meaning populations rarely figure in them as
such.
Mark
On 7/22/05, samata biswas <bsamata@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> machiel,
> i think you were referring to "The Truman Show" with Jim Carrey in the lead.
>
> On 7/21/05, M. Karskens <mkarskens@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The point of most answers is that discipline and biopolitcs almost are
> > identified. In my opinion biopolitics is much more caring, pastoral and
> > nomalizing than discipline. Dogville is a perfect example, and also the
> > film about the boy/man who lives in a tv soap (I don't remember the name)
> >
> > machiel karskens
> >
> >
> > At 18:26 19-7-2005, you wrote:
> > >Oliver Hirschbiegel's 'Das Experiment' is a good one. A take on the
> > >Stanford Prison Experiment. German with English subtitles.
> > >
> > >Simone
> > >
> > >_______________________________________________
> > >Foucault-L mailing list
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Prof. Machiel Karskens
> > social and political philosophy
> > Faculty of Philosophy
> > Radboud University Nijmegen - The Netherlands
> >
> >
>
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