英文摘要 |
This article attempts to analyze the power/domination relationship in the knowledge-based economy from Michel Foucault power/knowledge viewpoint. First, this article sketches his life and major writings. Then, it treats the origins and main features of his doctrine. Foucault himself was deeply influenced by Nietzsche. The 1968 student revolt in Paris changed Foucault's method of research from archeology to genealogy. The relationship of the utilizing of Internet (World-wide Web )and the blooming of knowledge economy is the amazing phenomena of the present-day world. "Knowledge-based economy" is promoted by commercial usage of Internet. In this type of economy, accumulation 'and transmission of knowledge enhances the produce of electronic industries. Progressing of"Information and Communication Technologies"(ICTs) helps to gather information and then to create new knowledge. The author constructs a "Mixer Theory" for illustrating the "implosion" in knowledge economy, where the integration of the subjects induces the lift-up of the boundary of society. Intangible assets play heavier roles, and the multinational companies (MNCs) become lucrative and powerful in biochemistry, medicine and electronic industries, that is, in knowledge economy. This kind of economy is characterized to have "power/domination" relationship. It is obvious that specified knowledge has its power, and dominates our daily life throughout codifying knowledge from overwhelmingly codes. As Foucault points out, the way of employing power is more subtle from 18th century onward, and power is penetrating in every discourse and site. By carrying out the power, knowledge reproduces itself. In the modem society, the sovereignty of states still superimpose their will to every citizen in the form of law and disciplines. Because subjects and the people become a "docile bodies" in the disciplinary society, the law seems to be narrowed down as criminal law. But the states' function do not shrink and vanish, let alone wither-away. Besides, international organisations also play crucial role in the framework of power/domination of knowledge economy. |