What Foucault's concept of the panopticon explains — surveillance produces self-discipline

What Foucault means by 'biopolitics' — governance of populations through control of life processes

Foucault's 'biopolitics' refers to state power over populations' biological existence

What Foucault means by 'power/knowledge' — knowledge production is inseparable from power relations

Foucault posits that knowledge creation is inherently linked to power dynamics, shaping societal structures

What Heidegger's 'the question concerning technology' argues — technology reveals the world as standing-reserve

Heidegger contends that technology presents the world as a resource for exploitation

What Heidegger meant by the forgetting of Being — Western metaphysics reduced Being to beings

Heidegger's concept: Western metaphysics obscured Being by focusing on individual beings

What 'das Man' (the They) does according to Heidegger — anonymous social norms that dissolve individual responsibility

'Das Man' embodies anonymous social norms, eroding individual accountability in Heidegger's philosophy

What Heidegger means by 'thrownness' (Geworfenheit) — we find ourselves in a situation we didn't choose

Heidegger's 'thrownness' describes our existence as involuntarily situated in a world with pre-existing conditions