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concept that Foucault developed to explain a peculiar inversion of the ordinary way in
which we think about knowledge. Normally, we regard knowledge as a means by which we
discover new things about ourselves and the world at large. But for Foucault, in the
modern era, knowledge is made into a means by which people are controlled. Categories
of knowledge are created—forms of mental illness as recorded by science, or the use of
scientific classification to name plants in the developing world that are then harvested for
their genes, patented, and sold back to society in the form of medicines and cosmetics—
and people and resources compelled to conform to those categories. Such categories
represent a kind of knowledge that has little to do with discovery, and much to do with the
manipulation of people, wealth, and culture. Power expresses itself in this
power/knowledge system in a subtle and thereby especially effective way, as the
categories—not a person who might be found personally responsible for the misuse of
authority—do the work.
Said tells us how power/knowledge played a part in the conquest of the East, especially
Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt. In addition to his armies, Napoleon brought scientists,
artists, and historians. While his armies conquered their Egyptian adversaries, the cream
of French scholarship recorded everything they could about Egypt in massive data
collections. Napoleon was then able to turn Egypt, one of the olde英语论文网 【http://www.51lunwen.org】st civilizations in the
world, into an idea directly controlled by French natural and social science. With this,
Napoleon was able to gain strategic advantage over Egypt, and what’s more, develop a
French conception of Egypt that was of great service to Napoleon’s empire.
Unit Two Notes: Week Four
Keywords for week four:
. neo-institutionalism (Theda Skocpol)
. discourse
. the culture war . reification
. ideology
. discourse
. post-materialism (Ronald Inglehart)
1. Context and Perspective: Post-materialism and Neo-institutionalism
The article by Miljan and Cooper makes substantial use of two major pieces of scholarship
taken from political science in developing its argument. This scholarship—the research on
post-materialism and the theory of neo-institutionalism—is very important in framing and
informing their argument. Before reading the chapter from Hidden Agenda, it’s valuable to
consider what these two bodies of research are about.
a. postmaterialism
Ronald Inglehart’s analysis of a value shift in the Western industrialized world is the
conceptual basis of the article by Miljan and Cooper in this week’s readings. That is to say,
the authors’ discussion of journalists as agents of a post-materialist consensus that they
share with civil servants working in state bureaucracies derives substantially from Inglehart,
a University of Michigan political scientist with worldwide fame for his work on the “Wor
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