T6 – Power

The exercise was created 2025-10-24 by vonthax. Question count: 32.




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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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