* 3 Dimension (invisible): domination that is difficult to measure or identify – hidden‚ insidious. (eg. Marxism‚ communism‚ poverty‚ ideology) * WHO: actor centered theory of power (celebrity products/people) * MICHEL FOUCAULT: * Interested in institutional and disciplinary power as “ regimes of truth” (the DE individualism of power) * Concerned with the institutional and disciplinary power we have – not just on the individual * Mechanisms
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“Images of Women in European Art‚” John Berger compares the relationship between the surveyor and the surveyed in traditional nude European art. Typically in European art‚ the surveyor‚ usually a man‚ views and objectifies the nude women in the paintings. Furthermore‚ Berger places a large emphasis on the difference between nakedness and nudity‚ nakedness being the state of lacking clothes whereas nudity is the state where nakedness is objectified as an art form. Berger claims that the subject of most traditional
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If feminism has to address shame‚ then it must also locate how shame arises to corroborate with prescriptive roles of living in society with certain marked identities- male‚ female‚ muslim‚ hindu etc. In a society that consider sex as dirty‚ we must look at the way we have generated multiple discourses about the body and sex in order to maintain an order. Gender being performative‚ as Butler suggests‚ is an indicator of how cultural regulatory ideals reinforce their power through the performances
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CRST 2A BODY CONSTRUCTS • What constitutes the ideal body? • What is a saleable body image? • How should we look‚ love and behave? • The Body is mutable and liminal. It is vulnerable and powerfully re-inventive. • The body in advertising becomes a warzone‚ characterised by threats‚ deficiencies and deferrals. • Appearance and sexuality are complex media issues. • Four concepts relating to the use of the body in advertising: anxiety‚ envy‚ glamour and sexuality (R Coward‚ 1996) SEEING THE SELF Body
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“Ways Of Seeing” by John Berger‚ the authors try to convey a similar point‚ but in two different contexts. Tannen describes a conference meeting and how she views others around her (Tannen 444). Berger on the other hand uses European oil paintings to show how only women are judged by the male eyes in society‚ Unlike a man‚ a woman has two elements to her identity‚ “the surveyor and the surveyed” (Berger 5). He also goes on to note that herself as the surveyor is male (Berger 5). This shows that when
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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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Panopticon is an idea first illustrated by a circular prison in which all the cells are open to an area in the center where a tower sits. The tower in the center is meant to be blacked out so that it is impossible for the inmates to peer inside. Foucault states the purpose of the Panopticon to create a situation in which‚ “inmates should be caught up in in a power situation of which they are themselves the bearers” (288). The psychological effect on inmates causes them to be inline out of fear that
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Athens is known as the birthplace of modern democracy. It is within this context that some of the most renowned political thinkers engaged in prominent discourses regarding the nature of democracy. Counted among some of the city’s greatest thinkers Plato and Socrates‚ were often critical of the city’s defining contribution to humanity. They were even viewed by many as antidemocratic for their views that only qualified individuals should be allowed to lead the Athenian state. However‚ this interpretation
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to help further the growth of her main character‚ Conrad Jarrett. Conrad’s relations with his girlfriend Jeannine and counselor Dr. Berger play an important part in his recovery and coping with his depression after a recent suicide attempt.Throughout Judith Guest’s Ordinary People ‚ Jeannine and Dr. Berger are able to help Conrad become whole again by teaching
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affected it. Berger describes the way people look at art now compared to how they did in the past due to the impact of reproductions. He argues that sight is the most important sense that people have and how the invention of the camera caused changes in art and the way people view it. The first reading of “Ways of Seeing” provides information‚ but after multiple readings some of his most interesting points are revealed. Berger appears to be a huge art critic. Some readers look up to Berger but some also
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