get lost and wander
get lost and wander Michel Foucault, a French philosopher who captured important features of modern power in the image of a shepherd on a search for 'one stray sheep'. He argues that modern power has increased its power as a whole by totalizing the population in the way it individualizes, that is, by carefully caring for and taming individuals one by one. It is said that active management and nurturing care that do not stop at simple oppression, confinement, and exclusion have become new technologies of power. He called the modern ruling power 'pastoric power' by comparing it to the image of a 'shepherd looking for a lost sheep'. Philosophy, for Foucault, was synonymous with 'lost and wandering. Not a curiosity to make one's own knowledge that must be known, but a curiosity to allow one to walk away from himself, that was the motivation for Foucault's works. What is the need for such a lust for knowledge that only guarantees the acquisition of kno...