The response paper Youngil Hong The Psychic Life of Power- Judith Butler Butler surveys the ideas of Hegel‚ Althusser‚ and Foucault around subject formation‚ interrogating how power produces its subject and how that subject comes to perceive itself as one. Butler understands power as forming the subject and as providing the very condition of its existence. I believe that her basic idea is that the subjects become attached to the conditions of their own subjectivity even if these conditions
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Controlling Telecommunications and Cyberspace Illegalities‚ New Brunswick‚ NJ: Transaction Publishers. Home Office‚ Access to Communications Data-Respecting Privacy and Protecting the Public from Crime‚ March 2003. Foucault‚ Michael. 1977. Discipline and Punishment. London: Tavistock. Michael Foucault Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison; Vintage; 2nd Edition edition (April 25‚ 1995) Rowland D. and Macdonald E.: Information Technology Law Cavendish Publishing Limited‚ 3rd Edition 2005 Journals
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In 1990‚ Judith Buttler wrote “Gender Trouble” which explored how gender and sexuality standarized in the construction of social theories. While inspired by Foucault‚ Lacan‚ Freud and Simon de Beauvior about sexuality‚ Buttler constructed their theories. Buttler use “the vocabularies of movement” as strategy to construct that is very uniqueness and became the burden of human manifestation‚ i.e. gender‚ sexes‚ and body. The social phenomenon develop too fast‚ while “the vocabularies of movement” are
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Different sociological theories advance different arguments about the way in which particular forms of social power (political‚ economic‚ cultural & technological)‚ shape distinctive characteristics of modern societies and the consequent changes in previous forms of such power. Debates about power necessarily involve different understandings of both the nature of social reality (ontology)‚ and how we best go about acquiring knowledge of that reality (epistemology). An important issue in this debate
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script which is irrevocably linked to the governing discourse on sexuality (power-knowledge). The concept of power to Foucault is that which is enforced not by authoritative top-down legal policing
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Power “excludes‚” “represses‚” “censors‚” “abstracts‚” “masks‚” and “conceals‚” according to Foucault (Smith‚ 2006‚ p. 91). More and more postmodern churchgoers are gravitating towards nondenominational congregations where there is not an established hierarchy of control. People don’t like being told how to worship or what they should believe. They
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In Paul Smoke’s article‚ which analyzes the use of subnational revenue for decentralization efforts‚ he claims that generating subnational revenue often fails even when normative instruction has been followed. In an attempt to shed light to this oddity‚ he posses the question‚ “are the principles inappropriate‚ or are they just poorly applied?” He later goes on to demonstrate how both elements hinder decentralization efforts (Smoke 2013). This notion of principle versus practice echoes an issue psychiatry
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* 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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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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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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