However‚ a docile body must first be defined in accordance with the facilitation of this conditioning of docility that Foucault describes. According to Foucault (1977)‚ a docile body is‚ a “body that is manipulated‚ shaped‚ trained‚ which obeys‚ responds‚ becomes skillful and increases its forces” (pp. 136). To clarify‚ from a Foucauldian perspective‚ bodies (or individuals) become docile due to the occurrence of ruling powers developing methods‚ systems
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Females as Docile Bodies “Women inspire male sexual desire simply by existing” In western culture‚ especially in the twenty first century‚ women are constantly analysed by men solely based on their appearance. A women’s appearance alone creates male arousal which leads to the degrading demeanour of males towards the female body‚ reducing a woman as a whole being to only particular body parts like the genitalia. The ‘ever present male eyes’ stem the reaction in women that they must always be
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Bora Sevilmis 10400 Question: What are the fundamental differences between sovereign power and disciplinary power according to Foucault? What are the major characteristics of disciplinary power? Why is it a more efficient form of power? Sovereign power is a type of power in which is traced back before the classical age‚ signifies the centrality of power. In this period‚ power was exercised through monarch it is the ruler who
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Question 1- Panopticism In regards to Panopticism‚ Michel Foucault theorizes‚ “The exile of the leper and the arrest of the plague do not bring with them the same political dream.” I conclude that the term‚ “political dream”‚ is an idea where people use power and knowledge in an attempt to achieve a perfectly governed society. Gradually‚ social reforms transformed how the political dream was viewed. Over the past few hundred years‚ techniques for social reform have improved‚ leading up to where
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‘Fat’ bodies are routinely marked. They are the abnormal and abject because they pose direct conflict to the norm. But the discourses that determine the norm are subject to the complex social process of normalization. Initially proposed by Michael Foucault in his 1975 text ‘Discipline and Punish’ normalization is the influence of disciplinary power on determining a norm of societal conduct. According to Foucault‚ sovereign power‚ power attributed to a specific authority was superseded by disciplinary
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MICHEL FOUCAULT Foucault’s major work analyses the emergence of modern institutions (asylums‚ hospitals‚ prisons) and the forms of governance associated with them. However‚ instead of stories of continuity‚ he focuses on discontinuities – for instance‚ the move from violent torture and execution to imprisonment as a form of punishment. According to Foucault this is not a question of new discovered humanity since power is still present in changing forms. Humanism does not remove power but reinscribes
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single mothers‚ defrocked priests‚ prostitutes and those living on welfare. This would be a new edict if Foucault’s concept of biopower were to be put into practice. Biopower is defined by the French scholar‚ historian‚ and social theorist‚ Michel Foucault‚ as institutional control over life and death of the human species particularly those who were deemed to be “socially unproductive or disruptive”. He has argued that it is a long-term result of the 17th century Cartesian mechanization of nature
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observing rather than just living a life full of brief sights. Michel Foucault‚ a French philosopher explores several elements in the ways in which our humanity and social sciences work. In his work‚ Discipline and Punishment: The Birth of the Prison he uses Jeremy Bentham’s design for a panoptic prison in which prisoners are watched constantly to explore how observation can change an individual’s behavior. Similarly Foucault believed‚ observation works as a disciplinary tool that forces individuals
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Butler and Foucault The ideas of Foucault can be seen as an influence on Butler in a number of ways. The most important of these is Foucault’s treatment of power and its relation to the body and sexuality as well as his identification of the body as the central target of power. As Butler is trying to prove that gender and sex differences are a social construct‚ the idea that those in power as well as society can shape our perceptions of our bodies and sexuality would be appealing to use. However
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The Powers of Panopticism Michel Foucault seeks throughout his work‚ Panopticism‚ to analyze how contemporary society is differently structured from the society that preceded us. He displays‚ through Jeremy Bentham’s architectural realization of the Panopticon‚ a prison for society and those who inhabit it. Also‚ there is the matter of constant surveillance‚ discipline and power in society. The Panopticon is not only a building where people are being governed‚ but also a laboratory-- “The Panopticon
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