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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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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Butler Lumber Company Case Butler Lumber Company Case Summary of facts: In 1981 by Mark Butler and his brother-in-law Henry Stark founded the Butler Lumber Company. In 1988 Mr. Butler bought Mr. Stark’s share for $105‚000 to be paid of in 1989 out of which $70‚000 was raised by a loan carrying an interest rate of 11% and repayable at the rate of $7‚000 over the next 10 years. Over the past five years‚ Butler Lumber Company has experienced rapid growth in its business. It derives its business
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what is order and what is disorder?” To answer the essay question about disorder in contemporary UK‚ I think that the concept of social order needs to be tackled first. I will do so by comparing and contrasting the work of Erving Goffman and Michel Foucault‚ two social scientists that attempted to explain how order is created in society and where it comes from. I will then compare and contrast the work
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interpreting his or her society is a constant job that they uphold. This is why the world has a vast variety of them. With their different minds‚ genres‚ styles‚ and themes. No single person can say writers such as William Shakespeare‚ and Octavia Butler are one in the same. A writer’s role is challenging and is constantly changing as time progress. Time is a constant and waits on no one. However‚ one author that is not bonded by time is William Shakespeare. A well renowned poet playwright‚ and
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St. Judith/Jutta St. Judith of Kulmsee‚ also known as St. Judith of Prussia‚ was born circa 1200 in Thuringia (central Germany). She died on May 12‚ 1260 at Kulmsee in the Monastic State of the Teutonic Order. Judith imitated the life of St. Elizabeth of Hungary‚ who was the Duchess of Thuringia during her youth. Not much is known about her youth‚ but it is known that Judith was married at the age of 15 to a nobleman and bore his children. She raised her children in a contemplative and mystical
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gender is disputable in the modern era (Donovan‚ 2003:4). From Butler’s perspective‚ the aim of gender equality is not only for women but also for those “who are gender different‚ who are nonconforming in their gender presentation” (Butler‚ 2011). In this sense‚ Butler brings her idea of gender as perfomativity‚ which provides a new way to look at gender identity and therefore influences profoundly on gender practices in various fields. Hence‚ this essay will begin by considering Butler’s critique
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Judith beheading Holofernes 1. Painted by the Italian artist Caravaggio‚ in 1598 around the 16th century. During the art movement of Baroque period. 2. It is a history painting 3. The media: Oil on canvas / The method: The lighting in this painting is dramatic‚ as though a single flame is illuminating the entire scene‚ causing the shadows to recede far into the background and the highlights to protrude outwards. This is most evident in the red curtain behind Holofernes. The techniques:
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One of the greatest Italian Renaissance artists is Donato di Niccolo di Betto Bardi‚ who we simply know as Donatello. He was born in Florence around 1386. He was the son of a Florentine wood carder‚ Niccolo di Betto di Bardi. How he began his career as a sculptor is undetermined although it is known that Donatello was educated in the residence of the Martelli Family and got his first artistic training at a goldsmith’s workshop and from one of the sculptors working at the cathedral of Florence 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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