Modern Architecture‚ London: Thames & Hudson‚ pp. 256-75. 720.108 FOR Koolhaas‚ R. (2001) Junk space: The Debris of Modernization’‚ in C.J. Chung et al. (eds)‚ The Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping‚ Köln: Taschen‚ 408-21 POWER / POLITICS Foucault‚ M. (1995) ‘Panopticism’‚ in Discipline and Punish‚ New York: Vintage‚ pp. 195-228. Forty‚ A. (1995) 364.60944 FOU Being or Nothingness: Private Experience and Public Architecture in Post War Britain’‚ Architectural History‚ vol. 38‚ pp. 25-35
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cells‚ each of which extends the whole width of the building; they have two windows‚ one on the inside‚ corresponding to the windows of the tower; the other‚ on the outside‚ allows the light to cross the cell from one end to the other.” (Foucault‚ 285) Foucault talks about the meaning of Panopticism‚ and how it works in our society. In fact‚ our toady’s world is even more panoptic than ever. In the first beginning of Foucault’s text‚ he explains what Panopticism is. He explains Bentham’s prison
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Foucault and Nietzsche share similar genealogies regarding the relationship of body and power in “modern” humans. However‚ Foucault adapted Nietzsche’s concepts as stepping-stones for different genealogical theories. Largely in regard as to how moderns were made through the training and discipline of bodies. According to Foucault‚ the individual is a modern concept‚ that whose origin‚ or genealogy was constructed from institutions power. For Nietzsche‚ the individual is an effect of social relationships
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Focault Panopticism "Our society is not one of spectacle‚ but of surveillance; under the surface of images‚ one invests bodies in depth; behind the great abstraction of exchange‚ there continues the meticulous concrete training of useful forces; the circuits of communication are the supports of an accumulation and a centralization of knowledge; the play of signs defines the anchorages of power; it is not that the beautiful totality of the individual is amputated‚ repressed‚ altered by our social
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Rhetoric 103b 7 April 2015 Essay 2‚ Prompt 2: Foucault and Freud on the Autonomy of the Individual Both Foucault and Freud developed theories of the subject which describe individuals as influenced by repressive powers in their autonomy. Freud‚ in Civilization and its Discontents‚ represented the individual as restricted in their behaviors and pursuit of happiness by civilization‚ a faculty which had been developed to secure human happiness. Foucault credits the confession of sexuality to the repression
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Michel Foucault in his 1967 lecture‚ “On Other Spaces‚” represent fluctuating spaces often linked to time‚ which can arise out of need for the individual or community‚ and which cannot be accessed freely. To discern the concept of a heterotopia‚ one must understand that a standard definition for it does not necessarily exist. The lack of a concrete definition for heterotopia stems from Foucault’s comment‚ “Our epoch is one in which space takes for us the form of relations among sites” (Foucault 2).
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constructionist approaches to representation. Most of this text will be exploring the constructionist approach with two major variants or models of the constructionist approach‚ the semiotic approach- Ferdinand de Saussure and the discursive approach- Michel Foucault. But we have to answer the question first：what does the word representation really mean？ 1.1 Making meaning‚ Representing things Representation is the production of the meaning of the concepts in our minds through language. There are two processes
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Stephen acted as the epitome of surveillance when he grows suspicious of Django and Broomhilda during the dinner scene. As Foucault states‚ “Bentham laid down the principle that power should be visible and unverifiable‚” (Foucault 231). The way in which power can be exerted is by creating a ‘dissymmetry’ between the observer and the observed. This means that the individual will always be able to identify the physical manifestation from which they are monitored from‚ but never know the exact moment
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Discipline and Punish Michel Foucault (trans. Robert Hurley) Part One: Torture 1. The body of the condemned This first section of Part One serves as an introduction to the entire book. Examples of eighteenth-century torture provide Foucault with many colorful episodes to relate in his account of how penality changed in modernity. Foucault relates an explicit account of Damien’s torture to introduce his subject (3-5) and compares that account of penality to Faucher’s timetable for prisoners published
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Michel Foucault ’s Archaeology of Knowledge While Michel Foucault ’s work has always been about the nature of power in society‚ his more particular concern has been with power ’s relationship to the discursive formations in society that make knowledge possible. Power here is not the conventional power of institutions and leaders‚ but the "capillary" modes of power that controls individuals and their knowledge‚ the mechanisms by which power "reaches into the very grain of individuals‚ touches
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