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    Foucault identifies relationships specifically within society’s and in each it comes down to how power‚ discourses and forms of social control interconnects and associates to how social control is regulated and determine how to authority controls crime within a social structure. The developments of discipline and increasing surveillance through the increasing rates of hospital/asylum‚ as apposed to analysing prisons and punishment through physical torture and focus on a process in which develops

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    M. Foucault‚ "What is an Author?" Michel Foucault (1926 – 1984) dealt with many aspects of social philosophy during his career‚ but it is his philosophy surrounding the role and dominance of the author in modern literature that this essay aims to deal with. From the 19th century onwards‚ Foucault notices that through social and political frameworks‚ the presence of an author vastly dominates the content and categorisation of any publication of that author. He also throws into question the idea

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    Benjamin’s essay‚ The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction‚ and Foucault’s essay‚ Panopticism‚ don’t seem to have anything in common at all. The former discusses the reproduction of art and the loss of aura that follows it‚ while the latter is mostly about discipline‚ with a design of a prison as its main foundation. However‚ after further reading and a lot of analysis‚ both essays talk about power quite a bit. While the two authors have opposing views on this subject‚ their ideas complement

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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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    implementation of surveillance really make people behave? The texts “Panopticism” by Michel Foucault and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey both focus on how to make people behave. Foucault’s theory explains that if surveillance is used on people in seclusion‚ the authorities will claim ultimate control. Kesey’s novel challenges this theory once new ward member McMurphy is transferred in‚ as he provokes Nurse Ratched and

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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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    Analysis: “Panopticism” and “Our Secret” In Michael Foucault’s reading on “Panopticism” he breaks down the social/economical systems and explains that society’s mentality on the law system. He answers the “why question” in a way certain individuals act and think as they do. Many times his explanation is much branched off into a different level of thinking. In one paragraph in “Panopticism”‚ a disciplinary mechanism is described‚ which is considered the best way for one person to be punished

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    St. Michael: The Archangel For my saint‚ I picked Saint Michael the Archangel. I picked St. Michael because I feel as though this saint doesn’t get enough credit.  I mean hardly anyone knows who he is. Do you? Therefore‚ take a ride with me‚ while I explain the importance of Saint Michael. Saint Michael is a name meaning “He who is like God” in Hebrew.  He is said to be placed over all the angels.  He is the Patron Saint of soldiers‚ security guards‚ and the sick people.  Saint Michael

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    Michel Foucault’s initial intent was not to analyze the phenomena of power and discourse‚ “nor to elaborate the foundations of such an analysis” (Foucault). His objective was to examine the main aspects of how human beings are made subjects. He came to the conclusion-that in order to understand how individuals become subjects‚ you must acknowledge the power relations within a society. Michel Foucault’s theory of power and discourse was first created/published in his book “Discipline and Punish: The

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    Isolationism: • America’s reluctance to become involved in European alliances and wars. • Isolationists held the view that America’s perspective on the world was different from that of European societies and that America could advance the cause of freedom and democracy by means other than war. • American isolationism did not mean disengagement from the world stage. • Isolationists were not averse to the idea that the United States should be a world player and even further its territorial‚

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