Modern Society Dear‚ Mr. Foucault After reading your ideas on panopticism‚ I found myself both agreeing with your ideas and on the other hand having a few questions of my own. Does power have to be invisible‚ in order for it to be truly effective? Can a panopticon have the same powerful effect over school kid‚ mental patients‚ and hospital occupants as it does with prisoners? Nevertheless‚ these questions will be looked at more closely later on more on Mr. Foucault. You state that the plague
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would particularly examine how the company uses the norm of hard working to judge subjects and discipline them through Redline training program in terms of institutional gaze‚ discipline‚ visibility‚ and power relations. “Institutional Gaze”: Surveillance and Judgment Norms that are established by the institution to train one how to act are ideals and standards that should be applicable to every member. As hard working is the norm of being an ideal salesperson‚ people who do not work hard could
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Through Panopticonism Panopticon is a scheme used greatly by the political hierarchy to manifest social order towards the underclass. It carries the expression of power and it is used as a mean of discipline through the exploitation of surveillance. Panopticonism is a way to control every man in to agreeing with the system that can take many different forms and fashions. John Berger and his views towards art historians mystifying paintings are branched from the panoptic schema used by the
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5 Discipline and Punish A L A N D. S C H R I F T Michel Foucault published Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la prison in February 1975 in the Éditions Gallimard series “Bibliothèque des Histoires.” It was his first major work since The Archaeology of Knowledge (1969) and the first since his election to the Chair in the History of Systems of Thought at the Collège de France in 1970. When it appeared‚ it confirmed Foucault’s position as a major force on the French intellectual scene and to
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com/2010/04/26/power-from-the-traditional-modernist-and-postmodernist-perspectives/ (Foxconn Technology‚ Sept 11‚ 2012) http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/business/companies/foxconn_technology/index.html (Foucault‚ M. (1995) Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Vintage) http://www.scribd.com/doc/26150474/Foucault-M-Discipline-Punish-The-Birth-of-the-Prison-Tr-Sheridan-NY-Vintage-1977-1995 (In Bryman‚ Alan and Bell‚ Emma.Business research methods‚ (p. 3-30).Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press
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Visibility is a trap In today’s technologically advanced world‚ surveillance capabilities have surpassed new heights. The monitoring of the behavior and activities of certain subjects can be done by someone on the other side of the planet and can provide whatever desirable information to the party that is watching. It is well known by society that surveillance is a very powerful tool used by governments and law enforcement agencies to maintain social control‚ monitor and eliminate
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It was created with the best intentions in mind. However‚ sociologically‚ the surveillance creates a divide in the community that it tries to protect. The social and media portrayals of criminals causes this system to fail. Police officers instinctively have the same perceptions‚ even though they are statistically wrong. Being forced
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Foucault Film Paper Prompt In their introduction to Ways of Reading‚ David Bartholomae and Anthony Petrosky write that as you read a text “you begin to see the outlines of the author’s project‚ the patterns and rhythms of that particular way of seeing and interpreting the world” (Bartholomae 2). This quote suggests that each essay in Ways of Reading is constructing a worldview‚ or lens‚ through which the reader can analyze and interpret everything he or she may read‚ see or hear. Because we
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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 with a description of the life
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Examples of visual texts might include National Geographic Magazine articles‚ public health campaigns‚ or television shows like COPS or Extreme Makeover. Technologies of surveillance might include CCTV cameras‚ ID cards‚ or biometrics. Consider what forms of social power are produced through the gathering and presentation of visual information‚ as well as what kinds of subjects are being produced and to what ideals are they
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