“uality” in the word and immediately think of sex in terms of intercourse? Do you think of one’s general eroticism towards another person? Your answer to these questions is relative to your society’s culture at a particular point in time according to Michel Foucault and Simone de Beauvoir. Foucault’s The History of Sexuality and de Behavior’s The Second Sex both agree that a superior manipulates a subordinate to suit his desires. However‚ while Foucault examines that those with political power manipulate
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accepting what was being shown to them‚ they saw movies as a permeation of reality – this led to the audience being drawn away from contemplation and promoted heightened sense of mind. In a way‚ this was a form of liberation for them. On the other hand‚ Michel Foucault believed that man had no real freedom. The thoughts they feel are their own‚ or the decisions they feel they make alone‚ are in fact imitations of the norms of society. From birth‚ people have been constantly under the watchful eyes of parents
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HOMO HOMINI LUPUS Addressing Violence and Power within Societies “The problems of violence may be cardinal to a proper understanding of political life‚ yet the concept of violence remains elusive and often misunderstood”[1]. Scientists are asked to explain‚ define and describe the object of their studies‚ make questions and give answers helping people to be less scared about the various “world mysteries”. In social sciences‚ to define‚ to give an objective‚ almost scientific‚ brief description
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Tennessee Williams exploits the expressionistic uses of space in the drama‚ attempting to represent desire from the outside‚ that is‚ in its formal challenge to realistic stability and closure‚ and in its exposure to risk. Loosening both stage and verbal languages from their implicit desire for closure and containment‚ Streetcar exposes the danger and the violence of this desire‚ which is always the desire for the end of desire. Writing in a period when U.S. drama was becoming disillusioned
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Panopticism: A Failing Disciplinary System In his 1975 essay Panopticism‚ author Michel Foucault discusses the effects that the manipulation of power and discipline ultimately has on society. As a philosophical historian and observer of human relations‚ his work focused on the dominant knowledge of disciplinary systems and practices by tracking their historical era‚ social context‚ and nature of power they held in society. Foucault’s belief that our society is not one of spectacle but of great
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thus ERP systems have provided a new platform for organisations to thrive and develop a competitive advantage. Actor-Network Theory is a constructivist and distinctive approach to social theory which was developed in the early 1980’s by scholars Michel Callon and Bruno Latour‚ together with sociologist John Law. Whilst Actor-Network Theory is often interpreted in many ways‚ it is commonly agreed that it adopts a ‘material-semiotic’ approach‚ which assumes that many relations are mapped together
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Reflection of Myself The topic of my art research paper is the biography of Jean-Michel Basquiat . Basquiat was a famous African-American contemporary Artist known for his flamboyant and bold artwork in the 1980’s. He started an art movement called Neo-Expressionism‚ which is characterized by intense subjectivity and rough handling of materials. Basquiat was known for this type of art based off of his early works with graffiti. I choose Basquiat as my topic because as an African-American student
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In the book Discipline and Punish: The Birth of Prison by Michel Foucault Describes how society in general can be compared to a prison due to the ways of discipline. He supports this notion from the chapter “Panopticism” in which he describes different methods of discipline and how they have played an effect in today’s society through three parts: economic‚ political and scientific. He takes us through times in history where we can see types of different discipline in these areas. Foucault begins
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“A third pole of opposition is between individual/social paranoia – is the paranoia that of an idiosyncratic individual or that of a group‚ neighbourhood‚ nation or transnational organisation?”(Harper 2008 p11) Even so why do we feel socially paranoid? Could social paranoia be caused by surveillance? One could argue that we are unaware of our surveillance. Additionally‚ there are rhetorical strategies that suggest a social strategy of paranoia. An ex-Prime minister for UK armed forces made allegations
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Focault’s concept of biopower and the problem of genocide Course: Michel Focault Written by: Rauf Ahmed From the readings of two texts of Focault‚ one is the part five (Right of Death and Power over Life) from the book “History of Sexuality: vol. 1 Introduction” and second text is the eleventh lecture from the book “Society Must be Defended‚ Lectures at the college de France‚ 1975- 76” I try to articulate the Focault’s concept of biopower and its main notions in this writing. “If
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