Is Knowledge Power?

Everyone's familiar with the idea that "knowledge is power". But how does power really operate and what's its relationship to knowledge? Is it exercised solely by the elite or are its formations more complex?

Foucault's analysis of power is highly influential and in this session we examine what makes it different and ask whether it remains a useful tool for understanding our contemporary situation.

Preliminary reading: the chapter 'Two Lectures', in Foucault's Power/Knowledge. Online source: http://bit.ly/xnmoVT... (http://bit.ly/xnmoVT). Amazon: http://amzn.to/zCbeB1... (http://amzn.to/zCbeB1).