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    Student I.D. 25822123 3. Foucault in Contemporary Theories Our bodies are connected to essentially all aspects of our lives. We utilize them to survive and function on a biological and social level. It is no wonder there is abundance of theories concerning embodiment. One key philosopher that has influenced theories concerning embodiment is Michel Foucault. By putting the body into focus‚ he has decompartmentalized power dynamics concerning the body‚ state‚ and society. He suggests power does not

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    claim that an accurate interpretation of Genesis 19 does not present text in clear and convincing condemnation of homosexuality. Leviticus 18:22‚ 20:13 and Romans 1:26-27 are analyzed to give support to the Conservative claim that homosexuality is condemned within biblical text. Overall‚ it is concluded that the Holy Bible while it doesn’t condemn homosexuality in as many places as Conservatives argue‚ does however condemn it in selected places. Essay Homosexuality is defined as a person’s sexual

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    The Past‚ Present‚ and a Condemned Future “The past is the present‚ isn’t it? It’s the future too. We all try to lie out of that but life won’t let us”(882). The character of Mary Tyrone declares this quote and poses an ominous thought; the state of time is merely irrelevant in life. It does not matter whether one resides in the present‚ the past can hauntingly resurface; the hope for the future can consume and blur what occurs currently. The main characters of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named

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    the truth also changes. It means‚ Foucault’s discourse is related to the production of any information that provides knowledge. Once the discourse is created‚ knowledge about some aspect of life is provided. Thus knowledge helps create truth. But‚ Foucault himself admits that such truth is neither true nor false.     The power is generated in society by producing the discourses‚ and by constructing truths. Such power is creative. Marxist power is just political and economic whereas Foucauldian power

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    care as the confession of it was more important‚ requiring a stricter ritual and promising more decisive effects)?” History of Sexuality‚ Scientia Sexualis (pg. 61) Based on the above quote from Scientia Sexualis‚ in The History of Sexuality‚ Foucault writes about the nature of secrecy and confession in terms of sexuality. The first sentence explains that‚ “from the Christian penance to the present day‚” the concept of sex is one in which people keep to a confessional manner. Throughout history

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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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    Michel Foucault wrote a book called History of Sexuality. In Part five of the book Right of Death and Power over Life‚ he discusses about the historical “Sovereign Power” where one is allowed to decide who has the right to live and who has the right to die. The sovereign uses his power over life through the deaths that he can command and uses his authority to announce death by the lives he can spare. Foucault then moves on to Disciplinary Power where he came up with the “Panopticon” where one

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    De Guzman‚ J.E. Philo 104 – Section Y Homosexuality and Femininity in the Light of Foucault’s Discipline and Punish September 11‚ 2012 Michel Foucault in Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality‚ demonstrates that the tools of disciplinarity (which emerged in the confluence of critical‚ historical upheavals immediately preceding the modern age‚ such as geometric demographic expansion‚ reconfiguring global financial and mercantile apparatuses‚ the redefinition of territorial boundaries

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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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    "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 order‚ it is rather

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