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Right, According to Whom: What Foucault Discovered About Discourse and Power
A rightsizing announcement. A rejection for "culture fit." A promotion panel that decides someone doesn't quite have "leadership presence." Three sentences that sound like observations about the world. None of them are — each one is manufacturing the standard it claims to be reporting on. This episode is about Michel Foucault's account of power: not power as the thing that says no, but power as the thing that produces the categories you get filed inside, and teaches you to keep watch on yourself once it has.What's covered:Why Foucault broke with the "sovereign" model of power — the king who…
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