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    Cited: Bak‚ John S. “Escaping the Jaundiced Eye: Foucauldian Panopticism in Chaarlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’.” Studies in Short Fiction 31.1 (Winter 1994): 39-46. Academic Search Premeir Ebscohost Research Databases. Midlands Technical College Library‚ Columbia‚ SC. 3/23/2009. <http://web3.epnet

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    id=4&hid=21 Gilman‚ Charlotte P. “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Exploring Literature. Ed. Frank Madden. New York: Pearson‚ 2009. 676-87. Print. Wang‚ Lin-lin. "Freed Or Destroyed:--A Study On ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ From The Perspective Of Foucauldian Panopticism." US-China Foreign Language 5.3 (2007): 52-57. Academic Search Complete. Web. 20 Apr. 2012. http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=3&hid=21&sid=3b761a93-ab69-4cb3-9112-2a84a30f9e2f%40sessionmgr4

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    Discipline and Punish Michel Foucault (trans. Robert Hurley) Part One: Torture 1. The body of the condemned This first section of Part One serves as an introduction to the entire book.  Examples of eighteenth-century torture provide Foucault with many colorful episodes to relate in his account of how penality changed in modernity.  Foucault relates an explicit account of Damien’s torture to introduce his subject (3-5) and compares that account of penality to Faucher’s timetable for prisoners published

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    Michele Foucault Biopower

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    Michel Foucault wrote a book called History of Sexuality. In Part five of the book Right of Death and Power over Life‚ he discusses about the historical “Sovereign Power” where one is allowed to decide who has the right to live and who has the right to die. The sovereign uses his power over life through the deaths that he can command and uses his authority to announce death by the lives he can spare. Foucault then moves on to Disciplinary Power where he came up with the “Panopticon” where one

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    INTRODUCTION Rationale Modern technology has increased influence in contemporary society. It seems to be contributed many social opportunities. Understanding and taking advantage from technology is the main aspect in contemporary world which is approachable society. The research question about modern technology is seemed to advantage for study and analysis because technology is the most importance in society. Throughout two years experience in Industrial Engineering field‚ most of mass production

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    The Benthamite Panopticon (pan= all‚ optic= seing) is a prison model modelled in 1791 in a way that allows guards total observation and surveillance over inmates. It consists of a circular building with a watchtower at the centre and cells around it that enables the guards to see the cells without being seen by the jailers. This architectural design which expanded to other institutions like the psychiatric asylum‚ the reformatory‚ the school and the hospital seems to fit in only one framework of

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    ARTH 372-01 MODERN ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING Department of Art and Art History College of William and Mary Fall 2012 M‚ W: 2:00 – 3:20 in 201 Andrews Prof. Sibel Z. Sayek Office: 109C Andrews Hall Hours: M‚ W 3:30 – 4:30 (and by appointment) E-mail: ssayek@wm.edu Phone: 221-2527 Course site: http://blackboard.wm.edu COURSE DESCRIPTION This course offers an overview of influential ideas and paradigmatic developments in the architecture and urbanism of the modern era from the Enlightenment (c

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    In contemporary world‚ the relationship between freedom of choice‚ identity and general lifestyle of modern consumers are quite complicated and questioned by a number of scholars like Bauman‚ Smart‚ Bourdie and Featherstone. An actual description of ‘lifestyle’ as a term is very broad. If refer to a sociological explanation lifestyle explained as ‘distinctive style of life of specific status groups‚ within contemporary consumer culture it connotes individuality‚ self-expression and a stylistic self-consciousness

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    Goffman and Foucault: Institutionalisation and Identity Social welfare institutions threaten people’s identity as they are built with the purpose of gathering ‘abnormal’ people from society and institutionalising them in order to create a better or just society (Dreyfus and Rabinow‚ 1982). Goffman and Foucault both discuss how institutions such as mental hospitals‚ prisons and even schools take away peoples identity by forcing them to be subordinated to a hierarchy of power; whereby they must follow

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    Is Class a Zombie Category?

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    Is class a zombie category? - by Daniel Byrne ‘Talent is 21st century wealth. … It is the nation’s only hope of salvation … Not equal incomes. Not uniform lifestyles or taste or culture. But true equality: equal worth‚ an equal chance of fulfillment‚ equal access to knowledge and opportunity. Equal rights. Equal responsibilities’ (BBC‚ 1999). This section of Tony Blair’s speech‚ given in 1999 during a Labour Party Conference‚ is one of many ways how one could have introduced this subject. However

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