Deconstructivist Theory Key concepts from Ellen Lupton’s A Post-Mortem on Deconstruction? * Deconstruction is part of a broader field of criticism known as “post-structuralism‚” whose theorist have included Jacques Derrida‚ Roland Barthes‚ Michel Foucault‚ Jean Baudrillard‚ among others. Each of these writers has looked at modes of representation – from alphabetic writing to photojournalism – as culturally powerful technologies that transform and construct “reality”. * The phrase “deconstruction”
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Michael Foucault’s work‚ a renowned French philosopher‚ has greatly influenced the study of politics. He began his career as a Marxist and went on to research about sociologically and politically valuable data. In 1961‚ for his doctoral thesis‚ Foucault wrote his first major work called the “The History of Madness.” In this book‚ he gives a historical account of a constitution (as he calls it) of experiences of madness ranging from the 15th to the 19th century in Europe. It involves studying effects
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University Press. Dudley‚ LeonardM. 1991. The Wordand the Sword: How Techniquesof Informationand Violence Have Shaped Our World.Cambridge‚Mass.: Basil Blackwell. Fitzpatrick‚Sheila. 1995. Stalin ’s Peasants. New York:Oxford University Press. Foucault‚Michel. 1979. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Translatedby Alan Sheridan.New York: Vintage. Fussell‚ Paul. 1980. Abroad: British LiteraryTraveling Between the Wars.New York:Oxford University Press. Giddens‚ Anthony. 1987. The Nation-State
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References: 36 Burrell‚ Gibson (1992) 40 Gordon‚ Colin (1991) ‘Governmental rationality: An introduction’ in The Foucault Effect: Studies of Governmentality‚ G 41 Hearn‚ Jeff and Wendy Parkin (1995) 44 Ranson‚ Stewart‚ Bob Hinings and Royston Greenwood (1980) ‘The Structuring of Organizational Structures’‚ Administrative Science Quarterly‚ 25(1): 1-17
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Modernity was a time period of change. Things were being created and trends were beginning to form. It was a place for new innovation and outlook on the arts and creative writing. Modernity is getting rid of the old and creating the new. This involved integrating women into the history of a male dominated workforce. New developments that emerged in the arts included silent films. What silent films are were film that were not in color and that were silent having no dialogue only being able to express
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References: Alm‚ James and Betty R Jackson. “Estimating the Determinants of Taxpayer Compliance with Experimental Data.” National Tax Journal‚ no. 45 (1992): 107-114. Foucault‚ Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (NY: Vintage Books‚ 1975). Government of Singapore. “Strong Anti-Corruption Law/Administrative Measure.” Last modified May 26‚ 2006. http://app.cpib.gov.sg/cpib_new/user/default.aspx?pgID=165.
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Question 2B – Essay Plan. Foucault‚ Rubin and Butler. Foucault and discourse. • Michael Foucault (926-84)‚ philosopher‚ historian and activist was one of the most influential of thinkers whose work is generally categorised as poststructuralist. • Foucault was a gay man who died of AIDS in 198‚ after his death his life and work were subject to a series of attacks which claiming to seek the ‘truth’ of Foucault work. • His work and life‚ achievements and demonization’s‚ have made him a powerful
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“What is an Author?” Summary Foucault begins his essay by introducing the essence of an author as an individualization of many different fields including knowledge‚ sciences‚ literature‚ etc. Without addressing anything directly‚ he focuses right on the relationship between an author and a text‚ regarding that the text points toward the author as a figure who has created and is on the exterior of the text. Foucault begins his thesis with a quote by Beckett to summarize the theme of his essay
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ghetto‚ and arguably the dark ghetto and the carceral apparatus. Chattel slavery was the origin of African American existence and the ultimate foundation of racial division. Jim Crow legislation provided “legally enforced discrimination” after the abolition of slavery. The ghetto is the concept of the urbanization of African Americans in Northern industrial areas‚ creating racially divided metropolitan areas. The final institution‚ the dark ghetto and carceral apparatus‚ refers to the “caste” of urban
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stigmata was used by the Greeks for marking ‘Others’‚ such as felons and slaves. The association of the word to social others was later spread to the Romans and they treated the act of marking as a state control mechanism (Caplan‚ 2000). This touches on Michel Foucault’s framework on social control in his book Discipline and Punish: “But the body is also directly involved in a political field; power relations have an immediate hold upon it; they invest it‚ mark it‚ train it‚ torture it‚ force it to carry
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