Panopticon is an idea first illustrated by a circular prison in which all the cells are open to an area in the center where a tower sits. The tower in the center is meant to be blacked out so that it is impossible for the inmates to peer inside. Foucault states the purpose of the Panopticon to create a situation in which‚ “inmates should be caught up in in a power situation of which they are themselves the bearers” (288). The psychological effect on inmates causes them to be inline out of fear that
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to power relation and domination by Michel Foucault might be applied into the poem of ‘Barbie Doll´ by Marge Piercy. Clearly could be seen‚ the victim from the poem are exactly a woman. While she’s only a kid‚ the topic of Mass’ Construction is strongly applied into the theme and atmosphere of the poem. As Michel Foucault stated in his ‘Power/Knowledge’‚ the stronger one person the bigger his position to influence the weaker opposites. For Michel Foucault it is through discourse (through knowledge)
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In the first part of Discipline and Punishment‚ Michel Foucault argues that‚ over the course of a few short centuries‚ the penal system shifted its target from the criminal’s body to their soul. Foucault locates this shift in the transition from public torture to prisons; from punishment as a public means of expressing force to a private means of correcting and preventing nonconformity. Punitive power has been replaced with disciplinary power‚ and discipline works on the soul rather than the body
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Tennessee Williams exploits the expressionistic uses of space in the drama‚ attempting to represent desire from the outside‚ that is‚ in its formal challenge to realistic stability and closure‚ and in its exposure to risk. Loosening both stage and verbal languages from their implicit desire for closure and containment‚ Streetcar exposes the danger and the violence of this desire‚ which is always the desire for the end of desire. Writing in a period when U.S. drama was becoming disillusioned
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“A third pole of opposition is between individual/social paranoia – is the paranoia that of an idiosyncratic individual or that of a group‚ neighbourhood‚ nation or transnational organisation?”(Harper 2008 p11) Even so why do we feel socially paranoid? Could social paranoia be caused by surveillance? One could argue that we are unaware of our surveillance. Additionally‚ there are rhetorical strategies that suggest a social strategy of paranoia. An ex-Prime minister for UK armed forces made allegations
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Michel Foucault presents a challenging read in the book‚ Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Foucault explains how punishment has changed over time from a corporal‚ physical punishment to a punishment that is targeted at souls. Foucault walks the reader though how the disciplinary and penal system has changed as the body was discovered as an object and target of power. Foucault begins this book by recounting the fate of a man called Damien the regicide‚ who attempted to assassinate
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Foucault believed that power is never in any one person’s hands‚ it does not show itself in any obvious manner but rather as something that works its way into our imaginations and serves to constrain how we act. For example in the setting of a workplace the power does not pass from the top down; instead it circulates through their organizational practices. Such practices act like a grid‚ provoking and inciting certain courses of action and denying others. Foucault considers this as no straightforward
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Bibliography: Craig‚ W.J. (ed) (1988) Shakespeare‚ W. ‘The Taming of the Shrew’‚ in Shakespeare: Complete Works‚ Oxford: Oxford University Press. Debora‚ G. (1995) The Society of Spectacle. Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith. Great Britain: Zone Books. Foucault‚ M. (1975) ‘ Discipline and Punish’‚ in Rifkin‚ J. and Ryan‚ M. (eds.) (2004) Literary Theory: An Anthology‚ (2004) Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. pp. 549-566. Irigaray‚ L. ‘Women on the Market’‚ in Rifkin‚ J. And Ryan‚ M. (eds.) (2004) Literary
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“Stop and Frisk” “Stop and Frisk” has been a very controversial method of policing over the last few years in New York city because of its associations with racial profiling. It has been used as a tool for the government to attempt to reduce crime in a preemptive way by using reasonable suspicion to stop‚ question‚ search‚ and if necessary‚ detain any citizen the officer chooses. Statistically‚ almost 90% of stop and frisk suspects in New York city were found to have nothing incriminating and were
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Critically discuss Foucault’s notion of power and knowledge? Michel Foucault is the one of the first contemporary social theorists. Born in France‚ he was‚ like most sociologists of his time‚ involved when students heavily revolted against the people in power in May 1968.He was not only a sociologist‚ but also worked in a range of fields: history‚ philosophy and psychology. His key works include Madness and Civilisation (1961)‚ The Order of Things (1966)‚ Discipline and Punishment (1975) and
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