Las Redes del Poder

by Michel Foucault

Los pensamientos de la identidad suelen ser solidarios con las políticas utópicas. Los pensamientos de la multiplicidad, por el contrario, suelen preferir las micropolíticas. Mientras las macropolíticas aspiran a transformar el mundo, las micropolíticas apuntan a conseguir transformaciones a nivel instituciones, relaciones personales, prácticas grupales no piramidales. Se trata de lograr aplicaciones no coercitivas del poder, resistencias creativas, acciones liberadoras mínimas, cotidianas, constantes, personales y sociales. Esta postura militante es coherente con la concepción teórica de Foucault, donde la verdad surge de las prácticas sociales de cada cultura. Esto es, de los dispositivos de poder. Dichos dispositivos semejan redes por las que circula el poder. Poder que no se posee, que se ejerce y que configura un reticulado en el que todos participamos. La trama del poder es densa en algunas zonas y rala en otras. Las ramificaciones de la red funcionan como va

118 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2014

About the author

Paul-Michel Foucault was a French philosopher, historian of ideas, writer, political activist, and literary critic. Foucault's theories primarily address the relationships between power and knowledge, and how they are used as a form of social control through societal institutions. Though often cited as a structuralist and postmodernist, Foucault rejected these labels. His thought has influenced academics, especially those working in communication studies, anthropology, psychology, sociology, criminology, cultural studies, literary theory, feminism, Marxism and critical theory.
Born in Poitiers, France, into an upper-middle-class family, Foucault was educated at the Lycée Henri-IV, at the École Normale Supérieure, where he developed an interest in philosophy and came under the influence of his tutors Jean Hyppolite and Louis Althusser, and at the University of Paris (Sorbonne), where he earned degrees in philosophy and psychology. After several years as a cultural diplomat abroad, he returned to France and published his first major book, The History of Madness (1961). After obtaining work between 1960 and 1966 at the University of Clermont-Ferrand, he produced The Birth of the Clinic (1963) and The Order of Things (1966), publications that displayed his increasing involvement with structuralism, from which he later distanced himself. These first three histories exemplified a historiographical technique Foucault was developing called "archaeology".
From 1966 to 1968, Foucault lectured at the University of Tunis before returning to France, where he became head of the philosophy department at the new experimental university of Paris VIII. Foucault subsequently published The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969). In 1970, Foucault was admitted to the Collège de France, a membership he retained until his death. He also became active in several left-wing groups involved in campaigns against racism and human rights abuses and for penal reform. Foucault later published Discipline and Punish (1975) and The History of Sexuality (1976), in which he developed archaeological and genealogical methods that emphasized the role that power plays in society.
Foucault died in Paris from complications of HIV/AIDS; he became the first public figure in France to die from complications of the disease. His partner Daniel Defert founded the AIDES charity in his memory.

Reviews

[Fioll Damm · Rating 4 out of 5]

Un libro interesante para refrescar conceptos de Foucault.

Explica bastante bien algunos conceptos que luego son útiles para abordar sus obras. Además, te pone la mente activa y a mirar los fenómenos sociales críticamente, desde su perspectiva (la arqueología). Se explican muy bien también los conceptos de anomo-politica y bio-politica.

Uno de los textos que recoge es la introducción al "Anti-Edipo" de Deleuze y Guattari. Me apetece mucho leermelo.

Os dejo una cita que me ha gustado:

"Una política progresista es una política que define en una práctica las posibilidades de transformación y el juego de dependencias entre esas transformaciones, allí donde otras políticas confían en la abstracción uniforme del cambio o en la presencia taumatúrgica del genio."

:)

[David Sanchez · Rating 5 out of 5]

Es un libro que te deja pensando en muchas cosas, como las estructuras en una sociedad posicionan al individuo para poder funcionar, y como se ejerce el poder lo recuerdo mucho.

Con este libro acabe el año y no me decepcionó

[Jennifer Corredera · Rating 5 out of 5]

Micropolítica, biopoder y las formas en las que castigamos las conductas que no se adaptan a lo que consideramos comportamiento socialmente aceptables. Una lectura obligatoria para repensar la forma en la que excluimos a todos aquellos que salen de la "normalidad".

[Mar Zunino · Rating 3 out of 5]

Buenos pensamientos, complejo