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Diego Lizarazo
Contemporary culture
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Michael Foucault: The Invisible Power
“The disciplinary power is invisibly executed;
in turn imposing to those it controls a principle of mandatory visibility.” 
Michael Foucault
Our body is intersected by a multiplicity of invisible guidelines.
Those that define what we can do with it and what is forbidden to us;
those that emphasize the acceptable or unacceptable behaviors to certain places
those that define who can do what and who should refrain.
Our actions and our decisions are respectively intersected by these regulations.
Work, school, public space, and home are the norms’ territory.
These are areas of regulation and constraint that legitimize micro-power relationships
valuation differences and force among people.
Unusual behavior in public space
conspicuously marks and highlights those who engage in it
but neglects the norm’s arbitrariness.
Adequate ways of being, of good demeanor, the expected, are instituted from the politeness up to moral or pure sociability.
Other ways of being, then are censored, rejected and evident.
The unacceptable becomes visible as a mechanism to be rejected and punished.
On the other hand, the arbitrariness and the violence of the norm, that defines the extent of what are the acceptable ways of being
are silenced and muted leaving out, as inadmissible, different ways of being.
Behind the apparent information society
in which knowledge is reproduced, sources are democratized
everyone’s word is freed and the dialogues’ transmission is spread out;
but there exist another aspect in which control forces intervene, from ownership and concentration that coerce users.
In the context of the information era, informing becomes a crime, a target for constraint and persecution.
We find ourselves in a horizon of transnational and governmental efforts to regulate internet and penalize its uses,
to establish and make visible what is allowed and what is not,
to punish those who act beyond the rule, those who create what is not expected,
those who download, copy and distribute software without paying for it.
Conversely, invisible remains the cleverness of the exclusive software that aggressively spies, and invades users,
that manipulates their information and imposes changes in their programming without their authorization, or consent.
That is the malicious invisibility of a power that highlights the user’s initiative
its freedom
and makes of it a penalty and an infringement.
“The King’s transparent suit erases those who look at him”
“The King’s transparent suit erases those who look at him”
“The King’s transparent suit erases those who look at him”
“The King’s transparent suit erases those who look at him”
“The King’s transparent suit erases those who look at him”
The financing systems dominate the overall fields of society, government and culture.
Perhaps there is no more omnipresent danger and impending punishment in modern society
than attempting to break the rules of money and its sovereignties.
From the assault to banks to debtors delinquency, or reticence to pay;
the monetary deficit is evident and becomes a reason for persecution and punishment.
But who watches finance institutions?  Who makes their checks and balances?
The coin house produces the currency connected to the sovereign powers of the State that is backed up in goods and metals.
Nevertheless, only a minor portion of the money in circulation is produced this way.
Modernity has created another method, a colossal way, to produce money.
The money that banks lend does not come from their customers’ deposits.
What banks lend is only the payment promise from the borrowers, or from those who have acquired debt.
The structural base of the modern system is the legal authorization
given to the banks to transform borrower’s debt into money.
Debtor promises, in a written agreement, to pay what it has borrowed plus interest
otherwise debtor loses its goods and property.
The bank does not have any obligation other than generating the money to allocating the debt’s amount in the customer’s account.
A paper bill is not exchanged for the gold’s amount that backs it up anymore
now it’s only exchanged for another paper bill.
Money is actually debt.
That is the global nature of money.
The official control over this financial simulation is trivial; it is called Fractional Reserve Requirement.
This is a rule completely arbitrary and changeable according to time and other determined systems.
Previously, banks had to have one dollar in gold for each nine virtual dollars that it could lend; it used to be 9 to 1 ratio.
Nowadays things are different, even on certain contexts and occasions the correlation is 19 to 1.
In today’s world, those who produce the goods and services for living and surviving own the debt
and the banks, which do not produce anything, own the money.
“The disciplinary power is invisibly executed; in turn imposing to those it controls a principle of mandatory visibility.” Michael Foucault.
Original idea and directed by
Diego LIzarazo
Contemporary culture
Microvideos of criticism of the culture of our time
