Meaning of an Artwork According to John Berger in his essay “Ways of Seeing” the way that a painting is viewed by some may already be distorted prior to analyzing it because we are not viewing the original piece. The information that comes from the silence of a painting is only truly experienced when looking at the original work rather than a reproduction of it. The original work speaks to you in a way that a reproduction is not able to. Berger says this clearly when he states:
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discretion‚ however‚ more often than not‚ the things we do are a result of the thoughts‚ actions‚ and ideas of the people around us. The effects of influence are everywhere‚ yet no one seems to notice. In the article “The Invisible Influence”‚ Jonah Berger discusses the positive and negative impacts it has on our lives. In the book Ender’s Game‚ Orson Scott Card shows how easily children can be swayed by the environment they grow up in‚ which leads them to make skewed decisions‚ both good and bad. In
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In the first part of Discipline and Punishment‚ Michel Foucault argues that‚ over the course of a few short centuries‚ the penal system shifted its target from the criminal’s body to their soul. Foucault locates this shift in the transition from public torture to prisons; from punishment as a public means of expressing force to a private means of correcting and preventing nonconformity. Punitive power has been replaced with disciplinary power‚ and discipline works on the soul rather than the body
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Scharffen Berger Chocolate Maker Product Quality and Process Quality Product quality “Quality is the measure of excellence or state of being free from deficiency‚ defects‚ and significant variations"‚ (Nader‚ 2009). Quality of a product can be mainly assessed from a manufacturer and a customer point of view. From a customer point of view‚ product quality is perspective as each individual perceives quality differently. Ultimately‚ product quality is the capability of the product to fulfil
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In John Berger’s article‚ ’Ways of Seeing’‚ it explains European eighteenth century art and how it relates to many of todays cultural transitions. Before Berger begins explaining the art itself‚ he tells us about the cultural constructions that exist today. These cultural constructions are enforced and were highlighted through European eighteenth century art. He began by explaining the difference between a man and a woman’s presence. Men’s presence depends how much power he is able to successfully
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Foucault believed that power is never in any one person’s hands‚ it does not show itself in any obvious manner but rather as something that works its way into our imaginations and serves to constrain how we act. For example in the setting of a workplace the power does not pass from the top down; instead it circulates through their organizational practices. Such practices act like a grid‚ provoking and inciting certain courses of action and denying others. Foucault considers this as no straightforward
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a model for other institutions in a disciplinary society in which the transition into the age of modernity has caused institutions to be compelled to control the time of the individual. Foucault does this through four sections in which he explains the transformation in the usage of power as well as space. Foucault is trying to answer the question of how did the modern prison system alter the power relationship between individuals and the overall and discipline
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FOUCAULT AND THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION: GENDER AND SEDUCTIONS OF ISLAMISM Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson The University of Chicago Press Chicago and London 2005 Janet Afary is associate professor in the departments of history and women’s studies at Purdue University. She is the author of The Iranian Constitutional Revolution‚ 1906–1911‚ and president of the International Society for Iranian Studies (2004–2006). Kevin B. Anderson is associate professor of political science and sociology at
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Prison” seeks to identify the origins of Discipline systems and the effects of these processes on society. Foucault focuses on the role of power in establishing societal norms‚ and the consequences that arise when individuals deviate from those norms. Foucault critiques the enlightenment’s effect on society through an examination of the processes for correcting these deviations. Foucault focuses on prison systems primarily‚ but also extends his analysis to question the processes of hospitals.
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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‚ teachers
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