If feminism has to address shame‚ then it must also locate how shame arises to corroborate with prescriptive roles of living in society with certain marked identities- male‚ female‚ muslim‚ hindu etc. In a society that consider sex as dirty‚ we must look at the way we have generated multiple discourses about the body and sex in order to maintain an order. Gender being performative‚ as Butler suggests‚ is an indicator of how cultural regulatory ideals reinforce their power through the performances
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Bibliography: Allan‚ S. (1999)‚ ‘News culture’ Open University Press Ahmed‚ A. (1992)‚ ‘Postmodernism And Islam: Predicament And Promise’ Routledge. Foucault‚ M. (1980)‚ ‘Power/knowledge’ Brighton: Harvester. Foucault‚ M Gramsci‚ A. (1975)‚ ‘Prison Notebook’ Columbia University Press. Hall‚ S. (1997)‚ ‘Representation: cultural representations and signifying practices’ Sage Judd
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Modern Society Dear‚ Mr. Foucault After reading your ideas on panopticism‚ I found myself both agreeing with your ideas and on the other hand having a few questions of my own. Does power have to be invisible‚ in order for it to be truly effective? Can a panopticon have the same powerful effect over school kid‚ mental patients‚ and hospital occupants as it does with prisoners? Nevertheless‚ these questions will be looked at more closely later on more on Mr. Foucault. You state that the plague
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Athens is known as the birthplace of modern democracy. It is within this context that some of the most renowned political thinkers engaged in prominent discourses regarding the nature of democracy. Counted among some of the city’s greatest thinkers Plato and Socrates‚ were often critical of the city’s defining contribution to humanity. They were even viewed by many as antidemocratic for their views that only qualified individuals should be allowed to lead the Athenian state. However‚ this interpretation
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Michel beings the film stealing money at a racetrack. When he leaves‚ an inspector (Jean Pelegri) stops Michel‚ but he is released because there is not enough evidence. Michel ends up joining a small group of other pickpockets and learning how to get better at the craft. Michel visits his mother and meets Jeanne (Marika Green) who tells him to visit his mother more often. The police later
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which precedes it. The narrative itself is portrayed through random events rather than a consequential chain of action. At the beginning of the film we are introduced to the main character Michel‚ although little information is provided on his background‚ his motives and his ultimate goal. Throughout Breathless Michel always seems to be running away from someone and running after someone else. The narrative is portrayed as a constant chase sequence with moments of action interspersed. As the film progresses
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has been widely used in modern society. For example‚ “the spread of disciplinary procedures‚” that Foucault describes‚ which is‚ “not in the form of enclosed institutions‚ but as centers of observation disseminated throughout society‚” can be seen from the National Security Agency to society itself‚ making it seem as though the idea of Panopticism is being used on the population every day (Foucault 196). In Foucault’s section about Panopticism in his book Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
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written by producer and director Alasdair McMillan‚ focuses on Police Procedural within The Wire‚ an HBO series created by David Simons. The reading consists of multiple points that are stretched across the chapter‚ employing the beliefs of Plato‚ Foucault‚ and Simons. One consistent argument McMillan explains thoroughly throughout the text is how the institutions sway a character’s motives. These institutions are also what create police procedural and the actions of the officers within the show. The
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There have been numerous studies regarding how the influence of technology has brought about change to the structure of an organization as well as its processes. Many of the studies have concluded that the organizational structure is strongly affected by the principal technology which the organization uses. (Volti‚ 2005) Technology‚ in simple terms‚ is seen as the conversion of inputs into outputs using machines‚ equipments and processes. It is a system based on the use of knowledge and organization
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Naugle begins by looking at the development of worldview throughout the history of protestant evangelicalism. He believes that Christians seem to have always had an understanding of how the world worked‚ but defining this in terms of a worldview has been a recent development in their history. Naugle looks at the writings of James Orr‚ who first arrived at the idea of viewing Christianity as a proper worldview. He believed that Christianity was not something to be sectioned‚ but taught and defended
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