our readings are so rich and complicated that it's hard to know where to insert myself in discussion with the texts. so much easier to think of it as a conversation with you all.
i'm blown away by Foucault's notion that knowledge "makes us its subjects" as discussed in our Understanding Foucault book. connecting two ideas of discipline - the verb as in repressing or punishing, and the known as in a subject to be mastered or regulation of the self - is very useful for keeping both the (constructed) idea that knowledge improves us and subjects us the exercise of power on us. somehow, when i think of knowledge allow, i have a harder time holding those two ideas and how they work together in my head. unpacking "discipline" has helped me understand or fathom that dynamic differently. makes it harder to separate knowledge into good/innocent and bad/oppressive types.
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