Stacey Fischer 12/02/14 Analytical Paper #2 Michael Foucault Michael Foucault is one of the more modern sociological theorists of our time, relating to Marxist theories greatly. Foucault was born in France in the year of 1926. He became very well educated throughout his academic years. He followed in the footsteps of Emile Durkheim and many other French philosophers, and attended École Normale Supérieure in 1946. While attending École, he was greatly influenced by Hegel through his professor Jean
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In chapter 16 of Playing With Ideas, Michael Foucault speaks highly about discipline and how beneficial it is to discipline students. Foucault says, “Thus discipline produces subjected and practiced bodies, ‘docile’ bodies” (Foucault, p. 332), discipline creates bodies that are obedient and trained to do what they have been taught to do. One of Foucault’s tactics to discipline students involves organizing them into individual places to be in the classroom. He calls this tactic one of the greatest
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(Schiffrin, 2001) Much of the structural analysis of the term can be said to have resulted from books such as the archaeology of knowledge, discipline and punish and the history of sexuality which were written by the famous sociologist Michael Foucault. Foucault defines discourse as ways of constituting knowledge, together with social practices, forms of subjectivity and power relations, which inhere in such knowledge, and relations between them. (Quinby, 1999) Putnam and Fairhurst [2001: 79]
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Alice Sewah Michael Davros English 101 28 February 2012 Society and Surveillance In today’s society we are under surveillance everywhere we step our feet to. The only place we get privacy is when we are at home, everywhere else there are cameras hidden watching you, without even noticing. At shopping malls, there are hidden cameras. The reason why they exist is simple: to prevent shopliftings, or in some cases, to catch shoplifters. Most customers realize that they are being watched
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rhizome might be nice, but rhizomes don’t describe the underlying structure of real networks,”1 rejecting the idea that there is such a thing as a nonhierarchical interconnectedness that structures our contemporary world and means of communication. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, on the other hand, argue that the Internet is an exemplar of the rhizome: a nonhierarchical, noncentered network—a democratic network with “an indeterminate and potentially unlimited number of interconnected nodes [that] communicate
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PHUONG In regards to Phuong we only know what Fowler or Pyle choose to tell us. Edward Said tells us in _Orientalism_ how Flaubert depicts an Egyptian courtesan, we know what “HE” says about her but we never get to really know her emotions because he speaks for her and represents her, and I think the same happens to Phuong. What we learn about Vietnamese women in the novel is depicted in images we are told from Fowler: “Lovely flat figures—the white silk trousers—the long tight jackets in
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Comparison and Contrast between the Disciplined and Controlled Societies Sociology Theorizing Introduction According to Deleuze disciplinary societies existed in the 18th and the 19th centuries. He explains that these societies were located by Foucault. Deleuze explained that the disciplinary societies were much evidenced in the 20th century which according to him was the time when the practice reached its peak. According to him in this system the individuals were operating enclosed environments
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Do we now live in a ‘panoptic’ society? Discuss through the ideas of Michel Foucault. This essay will examine French social theorist Michel Foucault’s (1926-1984), concept of Panopticism. It will give an example of the way it can be observed, through contemporary society. Firstly, it will cover a general aspect of Foucault’s work, regarding his historical method and his understanding of madness, power, knowledge and the body. It will discuss the idea of the Panopticon and how it shaped the idea
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We are living in a time where the sketched epistemes of political rationality for which ‘life’ is the organizing object of politics (i.e., biopolitics) is being challenged. During the 1970s and beginning of 1980s theorists such as Foucault argued that the sovereign right to kill was increasingly displaced by the administrative compulsion to make live. That is, instead of ending violence or killing especially in the context of Europe and North America lethal conflict was redistributed through out
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The essay that we read is the part of the book by Michel Foucault “Discipline & Punish” (1975), Panopticism. So, actually who is Michel Foucault and what is he known for? “He was a French philosopher and historian, associated with the structuralist and post-structuralist movements. Foucault was born in October 15, 1926, and to a big regret has died in 25th of June 1984. The book “Discipline & Punish” was published in France in 1975, and translated to English in 1977 by Alan Sheridan. “(Stanford Encyclopedia
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