Informational CULTURE Culture is the state object of the state power - product of the usage of informational power - information is present in culture for it has the core virtues? - homogenizing tendency - greatest form of informatio for it is the unification of all codes - culture is the object of state power because it is the unification of all codes; it homogenizes people o logic, philosophy, way of thinking o it universalizes a particular claim - making the state the stake/steak - Example: Korea o Government had money to popularize its culture: Korean novella, and the likes. <An assertion of identity> o Language is a cultural artifact sanctioned by the state Taga-ilog = tagalog - Text capital is symbolic capital produces information o Alphabet is symbolic, Roman numeral, Hindu-arabic number - Ability to create new categories of perception o Language, grammar, syntax, and alphabet: the categories for communication (roman alphabet is different from Chinese) - The state is greatest holder of informational capital because it sets the vision and division that we use in perceiving things - Symbolic capital connotes the creation of the script in perceiving reality o Example: the perception of degrees Celsius is temp then 12 is for height - Symbolic power was used in the past o 12 and 13th century The juridical system was born due to the inadequacy of Churchs law? Church Law = The decalogue Why is Mosaic Law inadequate? Prone to abuse: some bishops are not really a perfect priests. Not all bishops are fit. Kings created juridical systems They are merciful: made royal interventions. Justice of the kings, lords, and justice of trade. o Crown represents the people/ the state in Britany The church was not competent The church was pressuring confessions for them to be saved from the flames of hell. Afterwards, they make a judgement. Corsus colorum: power of nomination. Your blood determines your power. o Nobility based on law was created as a new perception (Knights of the ____ as an example) Modern day burocratic merit system o MIND OF THE STATE The state wields power by imposing her mind to the people Integration of physicalist, image, and semiologicalist, interpretation/ meaning, vision The state creates the image and its meaning. One man cannot do it, but a group can. You cannot go against the state for it created you. - HOBITUS o The state created Hobitus, which is called disposition. Things that you do. How the state makes use of power. Through bio power. - Hobitus: set of learned disposition; something inherent. Full of thinking. o Imposes categories of perception by incalculation particular visions? - VISION (nomus from Greek word nemo=divide) o State imposes a vision then the state is the foundation of conformism o Logical, moral, pre-reflexive passive agreement of the world o It imposes the truth because it has to prove the orthodoxy, people that are insiders, and disprove heterodoxy o Order is created due to perfect symmetry between truth and untruthful