Theorists Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault present their views on the power/knowledge affiliation in works such as Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil and Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. While reading the pair‚ it becomes almost impossible not to relate or apply their visions onto the contemporary society. One may even argue that they resonate with current systems of government. Eichmann in Jerusalem‚ albeit a collection of articles for the New Yorker‚ was published
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Prostitution A Marxist & Foucauldian Analysis Prostitution is a largely debated‚ controversial subject. This is due to different moral and ethical views‚ religious perspectives and legal matters. Some say it is a job like any other‚ however the lack of tax payment and regular check-ups denies this. Others say it is ethically wrong to pay in order to obtain sex‚ because it is essentially the sale of one’s body. Legally speaking‚ it is only illegal to buy sex‚ but perfectly okay to sell it.
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Issue of Power: Marx‚ Foucault and Sillitoe The relationship between modern and postmodern theorists has been a largely antagonistic one‚ creating much debate over theories such as the notion of power. Rather than focusing on the clear contrasts of these theorists‚ we take a different approach by finding connections within the disparities of their viewpoints. In examining the philosophy of power through the perspectives of Karl Marx‚ Michel Foucault‚ and Alan Sillitoe‚ it becomes subtly apparent
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FOUCAULT AND THE IRANIAN REVOLUTION: GENDER AND SEDUCTIONS OF ISLAMISM Janet Afary and Kevin B. Anderson The University of Chicago Press Chicago and London 2005 Janet Afary is associate professor in the departments of history and women’s studies at Purdue University. She is the author of The Iranian Constitutional Revolution‚ 1906–1911‚ and president of the International Society for Iranian Studies (2004–2006). Kevin B. Anderson is associate professor of political science and sociology at
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forces the inmate to observe his own actions as though he were being watched. This self-surveillance where the inmate “becomes a principle of their own subjection” (Foucault‚ 1977:203) means that the inmate plays the role of observer and observed (Foucault‚ 1977) by forcing the actions of an observed individual upon himself. By this Foucault believes he is more likely to comply with the rules of a prison alone as the inmate believes they are
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The extent to which snooping is carried out‚ how it is encouraged and justified and how the information obtained is used‚ are all central to the novel’s theme. Michel Foucault’s theory of "panopticism" is synonymous with Virilio’s stance on snooping. Panopticism is an exercise of complete power in the name of discipline. The inmates of the peripheral cells are always being watched and observed by the “guard” in the central tower. This surveillance mechanism
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In “The Use of Pleasure‚” Foucault addresses that‚ “Moderation‚ understood as an aspect of dominion over the self‚ was an equal footing that qualified a man to exercise his mastery over others” (p. 81). In the context of who is being addressed in this excerpt is a ‘man’ and not man
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Jean-Michel Basquiat: Overdosing on Art It was the late summer of August 19‚ 1988 the terribly young‚ Jean-Michel Basquiat died tragically of a heroin overdose in his art studio located in Manhattan‚ New York. There laid Basquiat asleep in a huge bed covered in television noise. Beneath the window of his bathroom were bloody syringes and words written “Broken Heart” with his favorite copyright sign. Devastated by her friend’s death‚ Director‚ Tamra Davis hid away hidden tapes of Basquiat not willing
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Radiant Child The life and times of Jean Michel Basqiat Roy G. Biv 300077293 Art Appreciation Mid term Radiant. That is what describes the career and life of the Jean michel Basqiat. Like a shooting star speeding into oblivion‚ Basqiat reached the pinnacle of the art world and beyond. His art rose from the New York street Art movement and eventually grew into the most wideley known and profound art in the world. His genius made him an icon and a legend in the modern art world. He was an
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the philosophers Friedrich Nietzsche and Michel Foucault have recorded how the meanings of certain concepts have changed through history‚ paying close attention to the texts of Nietzsche ’s "Good and Evil‚ Good and Bad" and Foucault ’s "The Insane". I will also suggest what I believe are the philosophical lessons that they think we can draw from recognizing these changes. In the chapter from his book Madness & Civilization‚"The Insane"‚ Michel Foucault charts the changing conceptions of madness
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