Deployment of Sexuality What does Michele Foucault mean by deployment of sexuality? Part four of the book on History of Sexuality speaks of the deployment of sexuality (HS 75ff). It is said here that deployment of sexuality is a disciplinary apparatus which concerns power. Many regard this work as a straightforward extension of the genealogical approach of Discipline and Punish to the topic of sexuality. This opus is a multi-volume work on various themes in a study of modern sexuality. His idea
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IMPROVEMENT OF LADY PARK ZESHAN COLONY KAMALIA Location: The scheme fall in Union Council no. 78 in Zeshan Housing Colony Rajana Road Kamalia. Brief Background: The said scheme was an open place handed over by housing and physical department to TMA for the purpose of
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Feminist theorists Camille Paglia and Foucault give opposing views on the topic of women and their sexuality as they addressed topics such as homosexuality and pornography as ways of expressing sexual desires and the role a woman plays in society in reference to her sexuality. Camille Paglia‚ a graduate of the University of Arts in Philadelphia‚ America‚ has strong feminist views in relation to women’s sexual preferences. Paglia is a bi-sexual female‚ who came from an Italian‚ Catholic household
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Well-known philosopher Michel Foucault wrote a book called ‘The Birth of the Clinic (1973)’‚ the main idea behind the book is that Foucault trails how medical knowledge was transferred by scientific methods in the eighteenth century. He recorded that the doctors based their treatments on observation of the patients symptoms rather than referencing books to analyse the type of disease the patient may have. Through observation‚ Foucault was able to develop the concept of ‘surveillance’ whereby‚ patients
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Brad Wartman Professor John McGlothlin Eng-W 131 22 October 2011 Microtheme 4 The panoptic schema makes any apparatus of power more intense… It is a way of obtaining from power (Foucault 161). Foucault states that the Panopticon is set up in a way that a prisoner is forced to be self-discipline. The Panopticon is a building set up like a tower in the center with windows. “The Panopticon is a machine for dissociating the see/being seen dyad…one is totally seen‚ without being ever seen; in
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conceptual structure or a set of beliefs to organize our point of views of politics‚ policy and discourse and provides standard categories to appreciate reality. Then in 1974‚ Erving Goffman developed its definition‚ as strips of behavior to help people to read the ongoing activities. (Sobur‚ 2004). According to Goffman‚ frame analysis is an examination of ‘the organization of experience’ and ‘frame’ is a principle of organization that defines a situation. Frames are used to analyze ‘strips’: arbitrary
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Frank Jacob 3rd October 2007 Definition: Webster’s dictionary defines stigma as a “mark of shame or discredit”. Goffman (1963) traces the origin of the word back to the ancient Greeks who used the word to describe cuts‚ or branding‚ made in the body to denote whether the person was a slave‚ criminal or a traitor. It was a sign of disgrace and shame. Goffman (1963) went on to argue that a stigma‚ or having a stigmatised condition is socially constructed‚ whereby the person is measured
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disciplines. The discipline you receive at home may vary from the discipline at school‚ and the discipline that the government may impose on you will be ultimate control on an individual. According to Foucault the main purpose of discipline and punishment is to train and “normalize” behavior. Although Foucault describes the penal system of the eighteenth century in his article Discipline and Punish
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nowadays. He argues that this generalized system’s “aim is to strengthen the social forces - to increase production‚ to develop economy‚ spread education‚ raise the level of public morality; to increase and multiply” (Foucault 208). It does so through the mechanisms of discipline that Foucault outlined. As a result‚ The Panopticon is an Ideology of educating and censoring to implant discipline and obedience. It is an ideology of education because it dogmatizes and internalizes ideas and rules of the system
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Sociologists Erving Goffman suggests that human interaction on a day to day basis is very similar to performing on stage. There is always an audience and always a performer. This can be related to going on a date. One is always trying to impress the other. When one is speaking you can consider them as being the performer and the listener the audience. In this type of conversation the roles will flip flop. Throughout these conversations both are waiting for the others true character or true person
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