Foucot's Repressive Hypothesis - The Biggest Wrong With It

The repressive hypothesis has to do with an understanding of the way power works that is naive, out dated. Foucot calls this type of power a bunch of different things throughout his work: contract oppression, sovereign power, repressive power. Most people look at power in the same way we looked at it back when we were living in monarchies in the 13 hundreds," he says.