care as the confession of it was more important‚ requiring a stricter ritual and promising more decisive effects)?” History of Sexuality‚ Scientia Sexualis (pg. 61) Based on the above quote from Scientia Sexualis‚ in The History of Sexuality‚ Foucault writes about the nature of secrecy and confession in terms of sexuality. The first sentence explains that‚ “from the Christian penance to the present day‚” the concept of sex is one in which people keep to a confessional manner. Throughout history
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Jean-Michel Basquiat Jean-Michel Basquiat was a painter and a graffiti artist. His work is mostly composed of graffiti‚ paintings on canvas and other mixed media compositions. Basquiat seemed interesting because‚ even though he did not live a long time‚ his life seemed to be filled with drama. His works seem interesting because they have a story behind them and they are supposed to be very political. Jean-Michel Basquiat was born on December 22‚ 1960‚ in Brooklyn‚ NY. Basquiat ’s mother‚ Matilde
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Foucault’s theorisation of the power/knowledge relationship Foucault in theorizing the relationship between power and knowledge basically focused on how power operated in the institutions and in its techniques. The point is how power was supported by knowledge in the functioning of institutions of punishment. “He places the body at the centre of the struggles between different formations of power/knowledge. The techniques of regulation are applied to the body” (Wheterell et al.‚ 2001: 78) Power
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Samantha Brown Benjamin Ondieki English 102 27-Sept-08 A Modern Prison In the beginning of Michel Foucault’s writing Panopticism‚ he tell us of a plague stricken town and the precautions taken to ensure the disease is contained. The town is closed down to all; no one comes in and no one leaves. Each family is confined to their house‚ “prohibited to leave under punishment of death” (209). Guards and such are places throughout the town to secure it as well as keep records of how everyone feels
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Justice with Michel Sandel Silvia Molina University of Texas at El Paso Justice with Michel Sandel Harvard university professor Dr. Michel Sandel introduces two lecture episodes that discuss a number of philosophy related issues. In the first episode “The Moral Principles” Dr. Sandel begins the lecture with a story of a trolley cart in a path that may lead kill one‚ or five people. The decision to kill the one person in oppose to five‚ is left to a show of hands by participating students.
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the truth also changes. It means‚ Foucault’s discourse is related to the production of any information that provides knowledge. Once the discourse is created‚ knowledge about some aspect of life is provided. Thus knowledge helps create truth. But‚ Foucault himself admits that such truth is neither true nor false. The power is generated in society by producing the discourses‚ and by constructing truths. Such power is creative. Marxist power is just political and economic whereas Foucauldian power
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What Is an Author? Michel Foucault‚ 1969 The coming into being of the notion of "author" constitutes the privileged moment of individualization in the history of ideas‚ knowledge‚ literature‚ philosophy‚ and the sciences. Even today‚ when we reconstruct the history of a concept‚ literary genre‚ or school of philosophy‚ such categories seem relatively weak‚ secondary‚ and super imposed scansions in comparison with the solid and fundamental unit of the author and the work. I shall not offer here a
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Michel Foucault ’s Archaeology of Knowledge While Michel Foucault ’s work has always been about the nature of power in society‚ his more particular concern has been with power ’s relationship to the discursive formations in society that make knowledge possible. Power here is not the conventional power of institutions and leaders‚ but the "capillary" modes of power that controls individuals and their knowledge‚ the mechanisms by which power "reaches into the very grain of individuals‚ touches
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Foucault’s middle period is characterized by analyses of power: the structure of power within society and its distribution‚ and the way relations of power unfold. The problem is that Foucault seems to imply that all social phenomena‚ from education‚ law‚ policing‚ discipline‚ governance (the institutions that form society’s infrastructure)‚ the apparatuses that engender and affect cultural and familial life‚ are reducible to an analysis of the relations of power operating within. Power is described
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Foucault’s essay “Panopticism” teaches in how we are always being watched effects our behavior and makes us conform is correct‚ but if there is any variation‚ it will not work‚ as proven in Kesey’s novel‚ One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Par 2: Michel Foucault’s essay “Panopticism” talks about the idea of control. He uses the plague and leprosy as ways of describing his point. He starts by talking about the measures taken with a plague outbreak; how the people in town are quarantined locked into
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