Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak Can the Subaltern Speak? An understanding of contemporary relations of power‚ and of the Western intellectual’s role within them‚ requires an examination of the intersection of a theory of representation and the political economy of global capitalism. A theory of representation points‚ on the one hand‚ to the domain of ideology‚ meaning‚ and subjectivity‚ and‚ on the other hand‚ to the domain of politics‚ the state‚ and the law. The original title of this paper was
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Originally‚ Foucault described measures to take against a plague that occurred in the seventeenth century‚ in which stands as an image against which the idea of discipline was created. Panopticism‚ also referred to as disciplinary power‚ incorporates structures that help disciplinary power function‚ which include invisibility‚ self-monitoring‚ normalisation‚ and surveillance. As a result‚ the Panopticon was an architectural design put forth by Jeremy Bentham in the mid 19th century for prisons‚ insane
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There are many theories regarding how social order is produced and reproduced ‚ but this essay will focus on the similarities and differences between the two contrasting accounts of how social order is produced‚ provided by Goffman and Foucault. Social order is the term used to describe the unspoken rules of conduct in everyday life‚ or a stable social situation in which connections are maintained without change or if change occurs it is in a predictable way. (Taylor‚ 2009‚ p. 173) These differing
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and Meyer‚ Marshall W. (1987). Bureaucracy in Modern Society. New York‚ NY: Random House Bodley‚ John H. (2002). The Power of Scale: A Global History Approach. M.E. Sharpe Crozier‚ Michel Finer‚ Herman. (1941). Administrative responsibility in democratic government. Public Administration Review‚ Vol Foucault‚ Michel. (1975). Discipline and Punish: the Birth of the Prison. New York: Random House. Friedrich‚ C. (1940). Public policy and the nature of administrative responsibility. In C. J. Friedrich
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Sociology 334‚ 1 Foucault on Capitalism Sociology 334 Akith Dissanayake 1231501 Akith Dissanayake‚ Sociology 334‚ 2 Foucault’s conception of capitalism and its rationality are understood through the double character of freedom. Foucault’s analysis lies in his realization that capitalism manages individuals and populations through freedom and not through repression. Freedom is the condition that allows the correlation between what Foucault terms as the accumulation of
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white supremacy’s libidinal desire to destroy black lives continued long after‚ from sharecropping and the KKK‚ to Jim Crow and segregation‚ to today’s means of controlling black populations: ghettoization‚ gentrification‚ police terrorism‚ and the carceral state. The positionality of the black subject is one of incoherence‚ it is a “‘scandal’ that renders civil society asunder” (Ibid 17). Modern society was built‚ not in spite of the colonization and enslavement of the African countries‚ but as a direct
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“Panopticism” Synopsis (beginning to 301) The Plague Foucault starts off his essay with the plague and the measures taken by a town to prevent it from affecting more people. People have been ordered to stay inside. Every street has been under surveillance and authority to make sure no one leaves their home or else the penalty will be death. There are no specific names or history of the people except for the roles that they play and what they do. For example‚ the town was divided into distinct
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This edition first published 2012 2012 Blackwell Publishing Ltd Blackwell Publishing was acquired by John Wiley & So n s in February 2007. Blackwell’s publishing program has been merged with Wiley’s global Scientific‚ Technical‚ and Medical business to form Wiley-Blackwell. Registered Office John Wiley & Sons Ltd‚ The Atriwn‚ Southern Gate‚ Chichester‚ West Sussex‚ P019 8SQ‚ UK Editorial Offices Art Is Not What You Think It Is 350 Main Street‚ Maiden‚ MA 02148-5020‚ USA 9600 Garsin gton Road
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everywhere. And “Power‚” insofar as it is permanent‚ repetitious‚ inert and self-reproducing‚ is simply the over-all effect that emerges from all these mobilities‚ the concatenation that rests on each of them and seeks in turn to arrest their movement. (Foucault 1978‚ p. 93) Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale gives a classical example of this all-encompassing nature of power. Set in the late-20th-century future‚ Atwood pictures a male-dominated‚ theocratic totalitarian society‚ set on the
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SOCIAL CONTRACT THEORY Social contract theory (or contractarianism) is a concept used in philosophy‚ political science and sociology to denote an implicit agreement within a state regarding the rights and responsibilities of the state and its citizens‚ or more generally a similar concord between a group and its members‚ or between individuals. All members within a society are assumed to agree to the terms of the social contract by their choice to stay within the society without violating the contract;
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