Who Possesses Agency? Michel Foucault’s work in which he titled Panopticism‚ he explains his views on power; how it is operated‚ obtained and sustained. He based the word panopticism on Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon - an architectural design of a building that enables the one who possesses agency to see each cell that a subject of power is incarcerated to. Foucault writes that “Visibility is a trap” (Foucault‚ 286) because the tower is used to “induce in the inmate a state of conscious and permanent
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human‚ society‚ nature‚ and literature. However‚ Montaigne used criticizing in the ideas of his time in a way that mixes humor with serious. In which he ended his essay‚ “Of Cannibals” sarcastically by saying “All this does not sound very ill‚ and the last was not at all amiss‚ for they wear no breeches.” He found in "primitive" societies to be respected. Montaigne recounts what this traveler has told him to conclude that those whom people call cannibals are actually more interested in nature and more
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twenty-three. Her autopsy states that she died form severe dehydration and malnutrition which both coincide with her possession by demons. Anneliese Michele was born September 21‚ 1952 in the winegrowing community of Klingenberg‚ Bavaria‚ Germany. Michel was raised in a very strict Catholic family in Bavaria‚ which rejected the reforms of Vatican II. Growing up she was woken up in the middle of the night by her mother to pray and drank holy water (Hall). After the changes to the Vatican II the family
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Traganou and M. Mitrasinovic (eds) Travel‚ Space‚ Architecture‚ Farnham: Ashgate‚ pp. 4-26. 720.1 TRA Schwarzer‚ M. (2005) ‘Architecture and Mass Tourism’‚ in J. Ockman and S. Frausto (eds) Architourism‚ Munich: Prestel‚ pp. 12-33 AGENCY / USER De Carlo‚ G. (2005) ‘Architecture’s Audience’‚ in P. Blundell Jones‚ D. Petrescu and J. Till (eds) Architecture and Participation‚ London: Spon‚ pp. 3-22. Forty‚ A. (2000) ‘User’‚ in Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture‚ London: Thames
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Samantha Brown Benjamin Ondieki English 102 27-Sept-08 A Modern Prison In the beginning of Michel Foucault’s writing Panopticism‚ he tell us of a plague stricken town and the precautions taken to ensure the disease is contained. The town is closed down to all; no one comes in and no one leaves. Each family is confined to their house‚ “prohibited to leave under punishment of death” (209). Guards and such are places throughout the town to secure it as well as keep records of how everyone feels
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LIFE AND TIMES OF ARTIST Jean Michel Basquiat was born on December 22‚ 1960 in Brooklyn‚ New York. His father‚ Gerard Basquiat was born in Port-au-Prince‚ Haiti and his mother‚ Matilde Andradas was born in Brooklyn of Puerto Rican parents. At an early age‚ Basquiat displayed an aptitude for art and was encouraged by his mother to draw‚ paint‚ and to participate in other art-related activities. In 1977‚ when he was 17‚ Basquiat and his friend Al Diaz started spray-painting graffiti art on slum
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George Fitzhugh‚ Cannibals All! In “George Fitzhugh‚ Cannibals All!”‚ George Fitzhugh is attempting to defend slavery. Fitzhugh spoke of how well slaves were treated‚ but mainly‚ he focused on how the North was guilty of slavery as much as the South was. He spoke of slavery as a kind alternative to being forced to otherwise work in the “free North”‚ where capital commands labor. He mocks the “free North”‚ stating that it is merely a society that is ruled by capitalism. Throughout the document‚ He
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The Milwaukee Cannibal On the night of July 22‚ 1991‚ two Milwaukee police officers came across a young African-American man named Tracy Edwards. Edwards was stumbling outside near an apartment building with a handcuff on his wrist. When the officers questioned Edwards‚ he rambled on about a “weird dude” who had drugged and tied him up. The officers decided to investigate the “weird dude.” Edwards along with the two police officers arrived at Jeffrey Dahmer’s apartment asking for the key for the
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Book review In the book‚ Cannibals with forks‚ John Elkington who is the author likened companies to cannibals to express corporations to devour competing corporations or industries to crave up and digest others in the traditional capitalist market. Elkington brought up an idea that forks could be an implement for these companies to switch toward to sustainability direction. As the form of a fork with three prongs‚ it is defined that ¡¥triple bottom line¡¦ of sustainability are economic prosperity
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DANC 100-6 Research Assignment Michel Fokine When ballet director Sergei Diaghilev ordered a young artist to “astonish” him‚ he was setting the tone of his own temperament as well as that of the twentieth century modern art in general. Diaghilev greatly valued imaginative‚ creative choreography and strongly encouraged it within his Ballets Russes to five of the biggest ballet choreographers of the century‚ including Michel Fokine. All of Diaghilev’s early triumphs were choreographed pieces
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