Discipline and Punish Michel Foucault (trans. Robert Hurley) Part One: Torture 1. The body of the condemned This first section of Part One serves as an introduction to the entire book. Examples of eighteenth-century torture provide Foucault with many colorful episodes to relate in his account of how penality changed in modernity. Foucault relates an explicit account of Damien’s torture to introduce his subject (3-5) and compares that account of penality to Faucher’s timetable for prisoners published
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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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Foucault and Nietzsche share similar genealogies regarding the relationship of body and power in “modern” humans. However‚ Foucault adapted Nietzsche’s concepts as stepping-stones for different genealogical theories. Largely in regard as to how moderns were made through the training and discipline of bodies. According to Foucault‚ the individual is a modern concept‚ that whose origin‚ or genealogy was constructed from institutions power. For Nietzsche‚ the individual is an effect of social relationships
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Rhetoric 103b 7 April 2015 Essay 2‚ Prompt 2: Foucault and Freud on the Autonomy of the Individual Both Foucault and Freud developed theories of the subject which describe individuals as influenced by repressive powers in their autonomy. Freud‚ in Civilization and its Discontents‚ represented the individual as restricted in their behaviors and pursuit of happiness by civilization‚ a faculty which had been developed to secure human happiness. Foucault credits the confession of sexuality to the repression
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what is order and what is disorder?” To answer the essay question about disorder in contemporary UK‚ I think that the concept of social order needs to be tackled first. I will do so by comparing and contrasting the work of Erving Goffman and Michel Foucault‚ two social scientists that attempted to explain how order is created in society and where it comes from. I will then compare and contrast the work
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Pendulum Raiyan Hassan SPH3U September 20‚ 2011 Introduction A pendulum is a device which consists of a mass attached to a string from a frictionless pivot which allows it to swing back and forth. In this experiment‚ the time it takes for a pendulum to go through a period is going to be measured. The time it takes for a pendulum to go through one period can depend on factors such as the length of the string‚ mass‚ or the degree in which the pendulum is released from (amplitude). In this
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In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Pit and the Pendulum” Poe‚ the author of this story has made it to where there is a few elements that add suspense to the story. Isolation would be a key element in the story that I would say adds suspense to the story it is one of the key one’s because as he explains what’s happening in this dark room that there is no light up until the part where he is under the pendulum‚ anyway he uses suspense with the isolation by always changing what was going on along with a little
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behavior.” Foucault depicts the panopticon as a way of exercising power over a mass; this idea can also be taken from the works of John Berger‚ Susan Bordo‚ and Laura Kipnis. Foucault begins by introducing the plague and the actions of society that resulted when the epidemic struck. The plague brought order. Houses were routinely checked‚ quarantined‚ registered‚ etc. Those who were infected were separated from the rest of society in order to establish an uncontaminated community. Foucault states‚
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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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HSC PHYSICS 2011 HSC PHYSICS 2011 PENDULUM MOTION BY NATHAN LOCKE Image taken from http://www.practicalphysics.org/go/Experiment_480.html Pendulum Motion Aim: To determine the rate of acceleration due to gravity by using a pendulum. Background Information: Equation One: T=2πlg Where T = the period of the pendulum (s). This is the time taken for the pendulum to return to its starting position. l = length of the pendulum g = the rate of acceleration due to gravity (ms-2) * In
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