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    Heterotopias‚ as defined by 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

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    Power: the capacity or ability to direct or influence the behavior of others or the course of events. While this is the dictionary definition‚ power can be viewed in several different manners. Michel Foucault took a different approach on this concept by developing his own theory on the phenomenon of power through his observations on subjects ranging from school discipline to administration systems. A writer named Jonathan Gaventa described Foucault’s work stating it “marks a radical departure from

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    One of the continuing motifs that Foucault develops consistently is the idea that power is an action that imprints‚ and ultimately has the ability to alter perception through persuasion and authority—the idea of subjugation. The idea of subjugation is that while this is a natural construct in accordance with human behavior‚ it has now been taken over by what is termed as subjugators‚ or more specifically‚ institutions of higher authority. The problem with this is how the subjugators have taken

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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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    The third chapter of the book‚ “Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison” by Michel Foucault is a look at the measures that were put into place in the seventeenth century when the plague was discovered in a town. The chapter‚ entitled Panopticism‚ discusses the social theory‚ named after the Panopticon‚ developed by Foucault. There is strict order that must be followed by all members of the town to ensure that the plague does not spread throughout the town and kill all of its inhabitants.

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    In his book‚ Foucault identifies the roots of sexuality back to the 1600s‚ where Christian ideology resulted in an augmented interest in sexuality within families. As sexuality began to intensify throughout society‚ ruling classes began to regulate it by seeking guidance from mentors‚ doctors and pastors that resulted in a massive dissemination of discourse on sexuality. Over time‚ sexuality has become rather significant to individuals‚ something that defines them spiritually‚ physically and socially

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    Michel Foucault’s “Discipline and Punish: The Birth of a Prison” seeks to identify the origins of Discipline systems and the effects of these processes on society. Foucault focuses on the role of power in establishing societal norms‚ and the consequences that arise when individuals deviate from those norms. Foucault critiques the enlightenment’s effect on society through an examination of the processes for correcting these deviations. Foucault focuses on prison systems primarily‚ but also extends

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    Goffman and Foucault: Institutionalisation and Identity Social welfare institutions threaten people’s identity as they are built with the purpose of gathering ‘abnormal’ people from society and institutionalising them in order to create a better or just society (Dreyfus and Rabinow‚ 1982). Goffman and Foucault both discuss how institutions such as mental hospitals‚ prisons and even schools take away peoples identity by forcing them to be subordinated to a hierarchy of power; whereby they must follow

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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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