Chapter 10 - An Anthropological Approach 1. The social life of images: an introduction - Importance of exchange relations → importance of objects that are exchanged for social relations - Visual materials not as something to be decoded but as objects with which things are done - Interest in the practical mediatory role of visual objects in the social process - Claim that visual objects and the people who do things with them are mutually constitutive - Studying visual images in the context
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Designed by Jeremy Bentham‚ panopticism lays a heavy emphasis on the importance of effectively educating the youth. Education in a panoptic society is suppose “to ‘fortify’‚ to ‘develop the body’‚ [and] to prepare children ‘for a future in some …work’” (Foucault 224). A panoptic community allows children to be placed into their most natural learning environment so they can be most effective in their society as an adult. From an early age‚ children would be split up into specific careers paths so they could
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INDIVIDUAL PAPER 1: Applying the Machine Metaphor Metaphors are often used in order to analyse organisations and theories of management by helping us to see and understand in a distinctive yet partial way (Morgan‚ 2006). The use of metaphors allows us to understand something by comparing it to an experience to which we are familiar. Akin & Palmer (2000 p 69) further explain the effectiveness of metaphors saying they “are integral to our language. It is through metaphors that we communicate.”
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Open Yale Courses http://oyc.yale.edu/transcript/469/engl-300 ENGL-300: INTRODUCTION TO THEORY OF LITERATURE Lecture 19 - The New Historicism [March 31‚ 2009] Chapter 1. Origins of New Historicism [00:00:00] Professor Paul Fry: So today we turn to a mode of doing literary criticism which was extraordinarily widespread beginning in the late seventies and into the eighties‚ called the New Historicism. It was definable in ways that I’ll turn to in a minute and‚ as I say‚ prevalent to a remarkable
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Foucault writes of the panopticon‚ “It is an important mechanism for it automatizes and dis-individualizes power. Power has its principle not so much in a person as in a certain concerted distribution of bodies‚ surfaces‚ lights‚ gazes: in an arrangement
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Princess Puffer engages Jasper in a conversation from which we learn about the effects that opium has on him‚ she hands him a pipe filled with the drug: According to Foucault “starting in the nineteenth century‚ […] monstrosity is systematically suspected of being behind all criminality. Every criminal could well be a monster (Foucault‚ Abnormal
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(2009‚ August 24). Retrieved March 9‚ 2014‚ from https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/gec-huge-unique-moderated/g7EFuosiB28/jw5yP-rKVG4J Jozwiak‚ J.‚ & Dees‚ I. (n.d.). Foucault Pendulum. Retrieved March 9‚ 2014‚ from http://www.cornellcollege.edu/physics/courses/phy312/Student-Projects/Foucault-Pendulum/Foucault-Pendulum.html History.com Staff (2009). Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Retrieved March 9‚ 2014‚ from http://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/bombing-of-hiroshima-and-nagasaki
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Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Can the Subaltern Speak? An understanding of contemporary relations of power‚ and of the Western intellectual’s role within them‚ requires an examination of the intersection of a theory of representation and the political economy of global capitalism. A theory of representation points‚ on the one hand‚ to the domain of ideology‚ meaning‚ and subjectivity‚ and‚ on the other hand‚ to the domain of politics‚ the state‚ and the law. The original title of this paper was
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Cultural Construction of Sexuality Choi‚ P and Nicolson‚ P. (1994) Female Sexuality: Psychology‚ Biology and Social Context. Harvester Wheatsheaf Foster‚ M.‚ (1992) Daphne du Maurier‚ London: Chatto and Windus Foucault‚ M. (1979) The history of sexuality‚ vol 1: An introduction. Penguin Foucault‚ M (1985) The uses of pleasure: The history of sexuality‚ vol 2 Freud‚ S.‚ (1955) The Psychogenesis of a case of homosexuality in a woman. London: Penguin Jeffreys‚ S.‚ (1990) Anticlimax: A feminist perspective
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Topic: What are the ideal body types for men and women in Hong Kong society? In what ways are these body types perpetuated through mass media‚ technology‚ and medicine? According to Bartky (1999)‚ is body modification a form of self-empowerment or self-punishment? Introduction Human body is one of the elements used to assess the attractiveness of a person. Since the aesthetics theory varies in different countries and regions due to different history and cultural background‚ the description of
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