Sublime

In disciplinary society, then, the relationship between power and the individual remained a static one:

Foucault aussi notait ce point, considérant que « la clé de l’attitude politique personnelle d’un philosophe, ce n’est pas à ses idées qu’il faut la demander, comme si elle pouvait s’en déduire, c’est à sa philosophie, comme vie, c’est à sa vie philosophique, c’est à son éthos 24

Foucault didn’t deny that a reality exists, but he doubted the ability of humans to transcend our cultural biases enough to get at it.

we live in an extremely controlling society in which authority has disappeared.

213iopower is a form of power that regulates social life from its interior, following it, interpreting it,absorbing it, and rearticulating it.

Governors and governed

rule of law continues to play a central role in the context of the contemporary passage: right remains effective and (precisely by means of the state of exception and police techniques) becomes procedure. This is a radical transformation that reveals the unmediated relationship between power and subjectivities,

Foucault’s conception of the episteme, which is an updated version of Marx’s theory of ideology. Since the class-theory is a genuine science, bourgeois political thought is ideology.