related to power relation and domination by Michel Foucault might be applied into the poem of ‘Barbie Doll´ by Marge Piercy. Clearly could be seen‚ the victim from the poem are exactly a woman. While she’s only a kid‚ the topic of Mass’ Construction is strongly applied into the theme and atmosphere of the poem. As Michel Foucault stated in his ‘Power/Knowledge’‚ the stronger one person the bigger his position to influence the weaker opposites. For Michel Foucault it is through discourse (through knowledge)
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References: Peter L. Berger & Thomas Luckmann The Social Construction of Reality; A Treatise on the Sociology of Knowledge New York: Anchor Books‚ 1967 Tara Andrews ‘Design and Consume to Utopia’‚ Design Philosophy Papers Collection Five 2009 Michel Foucault Discipline and Punish London: Penguin‚ 1991 David Harvey The Condition of Postmodernity Oxford: Blackwell‚ 1989 Timothy Mitchell Colonising Egypt Berkeley: University of California Press‚ 1991 Pierre Clastres‚ ‘Of Ethnocide’ Archeology of Violence
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decreased crime‚ but only by a mere 0.05% (Welsh‚ Farrington) (specifically in Chicago‚ which currently has 15‚000 cameras throughout the city). So‚ does this 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
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Michel Foucault presents a challenging read in the book‚ Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Foucault explains how punishment has changed over time from a corporal‚ physical punishment to a punishment that is targeted at souls. Foucault walks the reader though how the disciplinary and penal system has changed as the body was discovered as an object and target of power. Foucault begins this book by recounting the fate of a man called Damien the regicide‚ who attempted to assassinate
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TY 170 February 23‚ 2009 Grenz Review As time passes‚ different themes are presented throughout society. These themes tend to make attempts at disproving its predecessor. In Stanley J. Grenz’ book‚ A Primer on Postmodernism‚ he discusses the two most recent ideas supported by the public; modernism and postmodernism. The opposition is apparent between the eras of modernity and postmodernity. As described by Grenz‚ modernity focuses on the individual‚ using reasoning as a source of the truth. This
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that forces us to. Although there are many scientists‚ sociologists‚ doctors and psychologists who have contributed to the study and works of Queer theory‚ the four that this essay focuses on are Jacques Derrida‚ Michel Foucault‚ Alfred Kinsey and Judith Butler. Derrida‚ Foucault and Kinsey all contributed separate theories‚ and Butler brought them together to give us one of the most basic understandings we have of Queer Theory today. First‚ Jacques
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on the study of politics as a process or activity with an interdisciplinary approach. The debate on the centrality of the concept of power for understanding the politics is the interaction with the different space and time. And the intervention of Foucault comes in this way as a breakthrough from the conventional notions of power. The Power: Meaning‚ Nature‚ Significance and Characteristics The English noun power derives from the Latin ‘petere’‚ which means “to be able”. At the simplest level‚ power
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Over Soul’ (1841)‚ The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ Foucault‚ Michel‚ Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison‚ trans. Alan Sheridan (London: Penguin‚ 1991) Foucault‚ Michel‚ Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (1961) (London: Routledge‚ 2001) George‚ Scialabba‚ ‘Review: The Passion of Michel Foucault’‚ GeorgeScialabba.net http://www.georgescialabba.net/mtgs/1993/01/the-passion-of-michel-foucault.html [accessed December 2009] Gessert‚ George‚ ‘Cloud
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Madness and Civilization In Madness and Civilization‚ Michel Foucault discuses the history of insanity in Europe from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. He begins his analysis with the treatment of the lepers and criminals concluding with the treatment of the insane. As "madness" became part of everyday life‚ people of the time were though to be threatened by "madness". This sense of threat resulted in the hiding of the "mad" in early day asylum or "mad house"‚ whose conditions were inhumane
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Although Michel Foucaults "Panopticism" has a different form of control in the society as portrayed in George Orwells 1984‚ they both have many similarities among one another. Two ways of exercising power over men‚ of controlling their relations‚ of separating out their dangerous mixtures. The plague stricken town‚ transversed throughout with hierarchy‚ surveillance‚ observation‚ writing; the town immobilized by the functioning of an extensive power that bears in a distinct way over all individual
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