For Michel Foucault Power is critical to understanding the world we live in. Foucault's theory of power revolutionised the way we look at power from being a top-down domination to being an omnipresent force of nature. This episode is an introduction to the Foucault theory of power. We'll be explaining Foucault's theory in simple terms using examples from everyday life to show how revolutionary this new understanding of Power truly is. A critical distinction in approaching Foucault's work on Power is the distinction between the Empirical and the Theoretical levels of Power. The empirical level is the study of historical crystallisations of power (for example disciplinary power or biopower). The Theoretical level of power however is the study of power in itself — what is common to power across all historical instantiations. What we end up with is a Foucault theory of power that stands apart from all conceptions of power that went before. Instead of a top-down hierarchical domination hierarchy, Foucault's Power is an immanent, omnipresent force of nature like gravity or magnetism. For Foucault Power is everywhere from the interactions of lovers to those between states or colleagues. The fundamental atom of this force of nature is Foucault's Force Relations. ____________________⭐ Support the channel (thank you!) ▶ Patreon: https://patreon.com/thelivingphilosophy ▶ Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/thelivingphilosophy________________? Music Used:1.     Anguish— Kevin MacLeod2.     Lost Frontier— Kevin MacLeod3.     Despair & Triumph — Kevin MacLeod4.     There's Probably No Time — Chris Zabriskie5.     End of the Era — Kevin MacLeod6.     Lightless Dawn — Kevin MacLeod7.     Allegro — Emmit Fenn8.     Juniper — Kevin MacLeodSubscribe to Kevin MacLeod [https://www.youtube.com/user/kmmusic]Subscribe to Chris Zabriskie youtube.com/c/chriszabriskie Subscribe to Emmit Fenn: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcmssGR3ICxlt_7eV47FUhQ_________________⌛ Timestamps:0:00 Introduction0:59 Empirical vs Theoretical1:57 What Power Isn't3:32 What is Power?4:12 Traits of Power: Immanence5:04 Traits of Power: Intentional and Non-Subjective6:19 Traits of Power: Resistance7:35 Force Relations9:23 Dynamism of Force Relations11:52 The Alliance of Force Relations_________________#foucault #thelivingphilosophy #philosophy #michelfoucault #power #postmodernism #theory #history