English 102 – JC Clapp Questions for Thought and Discussion “Panopticism‚” by Michel Foucault Directions: Use these study questions to help you think about the article in a variety of ways. Use these questions to test yourself! 1. According to Foucault‚ how were plague-stricken societies organized to combat the plague’s deadly effects? Describe the key features necessary to combat the plague. What are the benefits or organizing society in these ways? What are the limitations?
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According to Foucault‚ the primary difference between Bentham’s Panopticon and the "disciplinary mechanism" of panopticism is that the Panopticon is a physical architectural utopia in which discipline is enforced and panopticism enforces discipline invisibly‚ without a physical‚ palpable presence. The idea of panopticism was refined in Bentham’s vision of the Panopticon‚ but true panopticism grew from this imaginary institution. Since man wrote his first law ‚ principles of power and discipline have
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Student I.D. 25822123 3. Foucault in Contemporary Theories Our bodies are connected to essentially all aspects of our lives. We utilize them to survive and function on a biological and social level. It is no wonder there is abundance of theories concerning embodiment. One key philosopher that has influenced theories concerning embodiment is Michel Foucault. By putting the body into focus‚ he has decompartmentalized power dynamics concerning the body‚ state‚ and society. He suggests power does not
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“Man Is Condemned to be Free” Jean-Paul Sartre‚ a French existentialist philosopher‚ was one of the leading figures in 20th century French philosophy. In both of his major philosophical works‚ “Being and Nothingness” and his famous talk‚ “Existentialism is a Humanism”‚ he emphasized the statement “Man is Condemned to be Free”. Before I agree or disagree to the statement‚ let us first answer this question: what condemns man to be free? According to Sartre‚ we are condemned to be free because
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Is man condemned to be free? According to Satre‚ man is not free to be free; he is condemned to be free. By this he meant that people are put on Earth without their consent and from then on they are completely responsible for their actions. According to Satre‚ God is‚ essentially‚ dead and none of his prophecies‚ commandments or morals limit our actions. Satre served for the French army during the Second World War and witnesses the atrocities of the holocaust firsthand. This experience‚ along with
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De Guzman‚ J.E. Philo 104 – Section Y Homosexuality and Femininity in the Light of Foucault’s Discipline and Punish September 11‚ 2012 Michel Foucault in Discipline and Punish and The History of Sexuality‚ demonstrates that the tools of disciplinarity (which emerged in the confluence of critical‚ historical upheavals immediately preceding the modern age‚ such as geometric demographic expansion‚ reconfiguring global financial and mercantile apparatuses‚ the redefinition of territorial boundaries
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tyranny of what he calls ¡¦totalizing discourses¡¦ and a rediscovery of fragmented‚ subjugated‚ local and specific knowledge. It is directed against great truths and grand theories.¡]p.80¡^ (¡° vs. Lyotard’s grand narrative/small narrative) ¡P Foucault rejects the Hegelian teleological model‚ in favour of Nietzschean tactic of critique through the presentation of difference. The gap between the past and the present underlines the principle of difference at the heart of Foucault’s
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(1979)‚ Michel Foucault introduces two ideas of punishment‚ Monarchial and Disciplinary‚ as a means of creating and maintaining power. Monarchial punishment refers to torturous practices used prior to the Enlightenment‚ while Disciplinary punishment refers to the incarceration of offenders and their subjection to the power of prison guards. This transition occurred in order to create an economically efficient method of punishment where a large group could be monitored by a single person. Foucault argues
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Who Possesses Agency? Michel Foucault’s work in which he titled Panopticism‚ he explains his views on power; how it is operated‚ obtained and sustained. He based the word panopticism on Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon - an architectural design of a building that enables the one who possesses agency to see each cell that a subject of power is incarcerated to. Foucault writes that “Visibility is a trap” (Foucault‚ 286) because the tower is used to “induce in the inmate a state of conscious and permanent
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1/17/13 Philosophy Kant & Foucault Both Kant and Foucault present a question of what is enlightenment? According to Immanuel Kant enlightenment was man’s freedom from his “self-incurred immaturity”. Kant believes that all that is needed to reach enlightenment is freedom. Enlightenment could not be achieved by any one person‚ we have to do so as a community. Kant said that we should have the freedom to make public use of our reason in all situations. He also believed that revolution is a
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