Michael Foucault's Theory of Power

Power, according to Michael Foucault, does not lie at the top but from the presence of political and economic benefits. Power becomes a struggle in a strong minority for mutual domination. So with that that power spreads no longer at the peak.

The knowledge that Foucault considers power. Absolute truth is found in knowledge. When the axiom or truth has been incontrovertible so far is knowledge. Thus that is what is meant by absolute truth.

Knowledge is something that a group of people collects and determines is used by a strong minority to impose ideas. About those who are considered "right" in the majority. With that, power is the determinant of truth.

Power has the legitimacy of determining what is right and deciding what is normal and abnormal or wrong and right. So that truth is produced in power. Then the truth is no longer beyond power.

Michael Foucault offers a geneological method. That realizing power is fighting against strong minorities to dominate each other. So that the power of knowledge is prone to knowledge monopoly. For example, it seems as if the lecturer has the legitimate power to decide which theses have quality and which are not. Perhaps the value is obtained by the will of personal sentiment.

With that, power is vulnerable to monopolizing and manipulating. As every period has its own truth. Because who is the ruling regime. So that all construction and hegemony in social reality is monopolized by the regime.

So knowledge as discourse is prone to knowledge monopoly. As well as manipulating power over strong minorities. So each period has its own construction as an instruction on who is in charge.

Hence, that postmodern loss of subject and consciousness. That power must spread is not a single focus. However, economically he became advanced but did not know anything else.

Like the bodies of soldiers arranged in such a way. He is no longer in control of himself, but he is controlled by the state. His body is controlled by the state. So that it is formed and controlled by the interests of the state.