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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Philosophy is Michel Foucault; he explored the shifting patterns of power within a
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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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The Subject and Power Author(s): Michel Foucault Source: Critical Inquiry‚ Vol. 8‚ No. 4 (Summer‚ 1982)‚ pp. 777-795 Published by: The University of Chicago Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/1343197 . Accessed: 26/09/2011 07:49 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use‚ available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars‚ researchers‚ and students discover‚ use‚ and
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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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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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Foucault ’s Las Meninas and art-historical methods. Michel Foucault ’s study of Velazquez ’s Las Meninas (1) was first published in the volume Les Mots et les choses in 1966 which was followed‚ in 1970‚ by the English translation titled The Order of Things. In "Las Meninas"‚ which is the title of the opening chapter of The Order of Things‚ Foucault focused on the artwork itself as though it were before him‚ describing in extraordinary detail what he saw. His seemingly unobtrusive actions--looking
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something bad is going to happen to them. In Michel Foucault’s essay‚ Panopticism‚ Foucault makes the claim that no matter where you turn‚ someone or something may be watching you. By doing this‚ Foucault also makes the claim that this would be the only way to keep society in tact. Now panopticism is not an actual building with guards watching over society‚ but it’s a diagram of hierarchy reduced to fit today’s society. Foucault explains in his essay that the diagram perfects the operation of power by increasing
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that the beautiful totality of the individual is amputated‚ repressed‚ altered by our social order‚ it is rather that the individual is carefully fabricated in it‚ according to a whole technique of forces and bodies." (240‚ Foucault)In the essay‚ Panopticism‚ by Michel Foucault‚ he makes the argument that we live in a society of "surveillance". It is mainly this surveillance that forms the basis of authority that draws the individual to believe that the world he lives in is one that is continually
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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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