T6 – Power

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• Historical boundary between reason and madness Reason–madness divide
• Madness as social, not medical construct Social construction
• Institutions define who is “normal” Institutional exclusion
• From leprosy to confinement Replacement of isolation
• Madness confined to protect order Great confinement
• Knowledge and power create “truth” Power–knowledge
• Medicine as moral authority Medicalization of control
• Controlling deviance through exclusion Social discipline
• Resistance through questioning “truths” Exposing power
• Shift from violence to surveillance Disciplinary power
• Controlling behavior through norms Normalization
• Being seen without knowing when Panopticon
• Observation produces obedience Surveillance
• Testing and grading as control Examination
• Measuring to define normality Evaluation
• Internalized self-control Self-discipline
• Power becomes self-regulation Internalization
• Resistance within power relations Immanent resistance
• Knowledge legitimizes control Knowledge as power
• Rule through data and transparency Information regime
• Power works through freedom Psychopolitics
• Desire to be visible online Voluntary subjugation
• Control through algorithms and data Data capitalism
• Freedom turned into control Positive power
• People exploited as data sources Data exploitation
• Truth replaced by circulation Post-truth
• Endless content blurs reality Infodemic
• Loss of rational debate Collapse of discourse
• Fragmented digital tribes Filter bubbles
• Speed over reflection Virality logic
• Panopticon 2.0: we want to be seen Digital surveillance
• Exhaustion through self-optimization Self-exploitation

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