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Article: Foucault as educator: the question of technology and learning how to read differently.
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- January 1, 2004
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In situating Michel Foucault in the contemporary philosophical debate about technology, a horizon marked namely by the thought of Martin Heidegger and that of the Frankfurt School, one must take into consideration Foucault's important distinction between two kinds of technologies: technologies of domination and technologies of the self. (1) Foucault spent much of his intellectual career delimiting the presence of technologies of domination in the human sciences, showing how through the discursive practices of objectification and classification the body is ideologically contained, and rendered docile, productive and efficient. On the one hand, technologies of domination, ...