painstaking rediscovery of struggles‚ an attack on the 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
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Foucault: Panopticon During the seventeenth century‚ the plague became a very big issue. Many died from it‚ and many societies were devastated from the aftermath. During this time‚ however‚ many higher officials felt the need to create guidelines to deal with the problem of the plague. The solution was isolation and strict discipline. There was constant surveillance‚ and the residents were checked on frequently to make sure they were following orders. This community during the plague was
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UNVEILING OF THE CURTAINS: THE TRUTH ABOUT THE NUCLEAR POWER A Term Paper Presented to Prof. Robert Rodriguez Division of Humanities‚ College of Arts and Sciences University of the Philippines in the Visayas‚ Miagao; Iloilo In Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements For the Course in Communication 2 By Hyacinth J. Menicable March 17‚ 2011 ACKNOWLEGDEMENT Very special gracias to the persons who made all this possible. Mr. Robert Rodriguez‚ our course professor who inspired me and
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Bentham in 1785. Bentham himself described the Panopticon as "a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind‚ in a quantity hitherto without example.” Michel Foucault‚ a French philosopher and historian of ideas uses this term in his book Discipline and Punish the Birth of the Prison as a metaphor to explain society. I will try to breakdown this metaphor to explain what Foucault means by this. Foucault explains we are living in a system where everything we do is survellience‚ thus we are
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The play that is going to be analyzed in this paper is entitled Oedipus The King. The playwright who wrote the play is Sophocles. It was first performed c. 429 BC. Sophocles was born in 497/496 BCE at Colonus. Moreover‚ he wrote 123 plays during the course of his life‚ but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax‚ Antigone‚ The Women of Trachis‚ Oedipus the King‚ Electra‚ Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus. Oedipus the king was the story that already known by people as a real story in
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Michel Foucault- Right of Death and Power over Life The concept is important. Don’t get to the details. * In ancient Roman times‚ power of the sovereign over his subjects could be exercised in an absolute and unconditional way. The king had the authority to directly expose the life of his subjects in times of war and thus he held an indirect power over them of life and death. * During the classical age in the West‚ this death that was based on the right of the sovereign was not manifested
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Opinions about Faraday On Michael Faraday people have different opinions about him‚ the majority of the crowd have a positive view about him but some will have a negative and sometimes and it can be different cases why they have a negative view about him‚ it can sometimes be a different perspective about him or it could be a view. Sometimes it’s mentally and sometimes physically; this makes Faradays such a good role model he did physical and mental changes to people; although sometimes not on the
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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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The History of Sexuality Will of Knowledge‚ Vol. 1 Michel Foucault‚ 1976 About Foucault Michel Foucault (1926-1984) is one of the prominent sociologists in the contemporary world. He held a chair at the prestigious Collège de France with the title "History of Systems of Thought‚" and also taught at the University at Buffalo and the University of California‚ Berkeley. Some of Foucault’s major contributions have been in the area of power and knowledge. He wrote frequently for French newspapers
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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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