after the brief cultural and political event known as May 68 in France. Archaeology constitutes a way of doing historical analysis of systems of thought or discourse. To be more precise archaeology seeks to describe the archive‚ he term employed by Foucault to refer to “the general system of formation and transformation of statements’ existent at a given period within a particular society. The archive determines both the system of enunciability of a statement-event and its system of functioning in other
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and Foucault have documented how the meanings of certain concepts transform as they progress through history. In Nietzsche’s case‚ this can be seen most vividly within his documentation of the changing concepts of morality presented in his work ‘On The Genealogy of Morals.’ This publication traces episodes within the development of moral valuations and‚ indeed‚ notes how changing concepts of good and bad have altered as history has progressed. Similarly‚ in ‘Madness and Civilisation‚’ Foucault records
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The idea of controlling inmates behaviors through punishing the fear of being watch was introduced by Michael Foucault in his book “Discipline and Punish” (1975). The main idea of “Panopticonism” is in the control of humanity through invisible forces. The government or authority is trying to surveillance population by new technologies. Cameras‚ bank cards‚ bus cards‚ passport (our unique number) and
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Bora Sevilmis 10400 Question: What are the fundamental differences between sovereign power and disciplinary power according to Foucault? What are the major characteristics of disciplinary power? Why is it a more efficient form of power? Sovereign power is a type of power in which is traced back before the classical age‚ signifies the centrality of power. In this period‚ power was exercised through monarch it is the ruler who
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Butler and Foucault The ideas of Foucault can be seen as an influence on Butler in a number of ways. The most important of these is Foucault’s treatment of power and its relation to the body and sexuality as well as his identification of the body as the central target of power. As Butler is trying to prove that gender and sex differences are a social construct‚ the idea that those in power as well as society can shape our perceptions of our bodies and sexuality would be appealing to use. However
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1/17/13 Philosophy Kant & Foucault Both Kant and Foucault present a question of what is enlightenment? According to Immanuel Kant enlightenment was man’s freedom from his “self-incurred immaturity”. Kant believes that all that is needed to reach enlightenment is freedom. Enlightenment could not be achieved by any one person‚ we have to do so as a community. Kant said that we should have the freedom to make public use of our reason in all situations. He also believed that revolution is a
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Foucault’s middle period is characterized by analyses of power: the structure of power within society and its distribution‚ and the way relations of power unfold. The problem is that Foucault seems to imply that all social phenomena‚ from education‚ law‚ policing‚ discipline‚ governance (the institutions that form society’s infrastructure)‚ the apparatuses that engender and affect cultural and familial life‚ are reducible to an analysis of the relations of power operating within. Power is described
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Michel Foucault introduces two ideas of punishment‚ Monarchial and Disciplinary‚ as a means of creating and maintaining power. Monarchial punishment refers to torturous practices used prior to the Enlightenment‚ while Disciplinary punishment refers to the incarceration of offenders and their subjection to the power of prison guards. This transition occurred in order to create an economically efficient method of punishment where a large group could be monitored by a single person. Foucault argues
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An effect of science‚ morality and medicine‚ resulted in the extensive discursion of sex. Science included medicine‚ condemned a lot of aspects of sex to be unhealthy‚ tried figuring out the truth behind it by talking about it as much as they could‚ with every detail possible‚ and included itself into the confession room. They discussed about the perversions of it‚ use perversities of various aspects of sex to conceal it in a way‚ to put it under a category and behind a screen. Treated as
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storyline of the book‚ Discipline and Punish discusses the history of the penal system that exists today. He also takes the opportunity to focus on how it has changed from decades before and what factors have contributed to such a drastic change. Foucault also uses his ideas of power and discourse to debate how they have both influenced the rise of the form of modern day punishment that we experience today. The author also relates the penal system and the process of it to reflect the sense of social
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