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    Modern Architecture‚ London: Thames & Hudson‚ pp. 256-75. 720.108 FOR Koolhaas‚ R. (2001) Junk space: The Debris of Modernization’‚ in C.J. Chung et al. (eds)‚ The Harvard Design School Guide to Shopping‚ Köln: Taschen‚ 408-21 POWER / POLITICS Foucault‚ M. (1995) ‘Panopticism’‚ in Discipline and Punish‚ New York: Vintage‚ pp. 195-228. Forty‚ A. (1995) 364.60944 FOU Being or Nothingness: Private Experience and Public Architecture in Post War Britain’‚ Architectural History‚ vol. 38‚ pp. 25-35

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    that’s including myself. I feel more relaxed‚ and I am able to let my guard down. There are even times when I use this time to prepare for my interaction with my family. This term is known as backstage‚ Goffman describes it as “the place which we rehearse and prepare for our performances.” (Goffman‚ page 105). I prepare myself for upcoming moments with my family. Every Wednesday my youngest brother and I attend youth church service‚ and for me‚ this has become a big performance. This normal day for

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    Erving Goffman provides a distinct lens to view society‚ as having heavily enforced social rules and regulations that create expectations of involvement for individuals. Goffman illustrates that individuals are solely responding to the regulations and rules given by society; society is built from structures of rules and regulations. In Goffman’s research‚ he contemplated about those who were sanctioned by mental hospitals whenever they broke societal rules. Goffman concludes‚ "Just as we fill our

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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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    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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    February 8‚ 2013 Impression Management The notion that we see ourselves as an object‚ as others see us‚ forms the basis for one of Goffman’s central concepts; impression management. Impression management refers to the verbal and nonverbal practices we employ in an attempt to present an acceptable image of our self to others. Some of the principal ways in which impressions are created and maintained are by the person’s demeanor‚ the deference‚ the front‚ the backstage‚ the character‚ and the

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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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    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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