•The maxim of quantity,
where one tries to be as informative as one possibly can, and gives as much
information as is needed, and no more.
•The maxim of quality, where one tries to
be truthful, and does not give information that is false or that is not
supported by evidence.
•The maxim of relation, where one tries to
be relevant, and says things that are pertinent to the discussion.
•The maxim of manner, when one tries to be
as clear, as brief, and as orderly as one can in what one says, and where one
avoids obscurity and ambiguity.
Foucault
The prison, and its panoptic architecture, was for Foucault a perfect example of these new technologies of power. In the panopticon, the prisoner can be observed at any time. However, because the observation tower in the middle of the prison is also a source of light, he doesn’t know when he is actually being watched, therefore acts with the assumption of an omnipresent observer.
Bourdieu
•Against the intellectualist tradition, Bourdieu stressed that mechanisms of social domination and reproduction were primarily focused on bodily know-how and competent practices in the social world.
•For
Bourdieu, the modern social world is divided into what he calls fields. For
him, the differentiation of social activities led to the constitution of
various, relatively autonomous, social spaces in which competition centers
around particular species of capital.
