New historicism roots begin in Michel Foucault a French historian‚ philosopher‚ and literary critic. Although not coming up with the term directly his exploration of the topics of‚ issues of power‚ epistemology‚ subjectivity caused revelations among critics which untimely sparked the creation of new historicism. His deep exploration of these topics and willingness to analyze and discuss disparate disciplines have shined a light on new historicism and its value to us. Another significant pioneer on
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emphasize the film’s most emotionally meaningful moments with a touch of theatricality. This technique intensifies the otherworldliness that becomes Vertigo’s most significant quality (Sterritt 92). Vertigo has a clear association with insanity; Michel Foucault‚ a French social theorist‚ states that it “affords the delirious affirmation that the world is really ‘turning around‚’” such delirium being “a necessary and sufficient reason for a disease to be called madness” (Sterritt 98). The repeated shot
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THE POVERTY Deba Pratim Sinha Outline • What is Poverty?? • Global extent of chronic poverty • Reasons Why Poverty cannot be ignored • Why Poverty? • Measurement of Poverty: The Poverty Line • The State and the Politics of Poverty • How proved wrong • The Three stories • Ways that can make the Poverty Away • Some Government aided program • References So‚ What is Poverty?? Poverty is the lack of what one needs to live within a society. In the broadest sense‚ it means
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Deconstructivist Theory Key concepts from Ellen Lupton’s A Post-Mortem on Deconstruction? * Deconstruction is part of a broader field of criticism known as “post-structuralism‚” whose theorist have included Jacques Derrida‚ Roland Barthes‚ Michel Foucault‚ Jean Baudrillard‚ among others. Each of these writers has looked at modes of representation – from alphabetic writing to photojournalism – as culturally powerful technologies that transform and construct “reality”. * The phrase “deconstruction”
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Michael Foucault’s work‚ a renowned French philosopher‚ has greatly influenced the study of politics. He began his career as a Marxist and went on to research about sociologically and politically valuable data. In 1961‚ for his doctoral thesis‚ Foucault wrote his first major work called the “The History of Madness.” In this book‚ he gives a historical account of a constitution (as he calls it) of experiences of madness ranging from the 15th to the 19th century in Europe. It involves studying effects
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References: 36 Burrell‚ Gibson (1992) 40 Gordon‚ Colin (1991) ‘Governmental rationality: An introduction’ in The Foucault Effect: Studies of Governmentality‚ G 41 Hearn‚ Jeff and Wendy Parkin (1995) 44 Ranson‚ Stewart‚ Bob Hinings and Royston Greenwood (1980) ‘The Structuring of Organizational Structures’‚ Administrative Science Quarterly‚ 25(1): 1-17
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References: Alm‚ James and Betty R Jackson. “Estimating the Determinants of Taxpayer Compliance with Experimental Data.” National Tax Journal‚ no. 45 (1992): 107-114. Foucault‚ Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (NY: Vintage Books‚ 1975). Government of Singapore. “Strong Anti-Corruption Law/Administrative Measure.” Last modified May 26‚ 2006. http://app.cpib.gov.sg/cpib_new/user/default.aspx?pgID=165.
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stigmata was used by the Greeks for marking ‘Others’‚ such as felons and slaves. The association of the word to social others was later spread to the Romans and they treated the act of marking as a state control mechanism (Caplan‚ 2000). This touches on Michel Foucault’s framework on social control in his book Discipline and Punish: “But the body is also directly involved in a political field; power relations have an immediate hold upon it; they invest it‚ mark it‚ train it‚ torture it‚ force it to carry
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and Meyer‚ Marshall W. (1987). Bureaucracy in Modern Society. New York‚ NY: Random House Bodley‚ John H. (2002). The Power of Scale: A Global History Approach. M.E. Sharpe Crozier‚ Michel Finer‚ Herman. (1941). Administrative responsibility in democratic government. Public Administration Review‚ Vol Foucault‚ Michel. (1975). Discipline and Punish: the Birth of the Prison. New York: Random House. Friedrich‚ C. (1940). Public policy and the nature of administrative responsibility. In C. J. Friedrich
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“What is an Author?” Summary Foucault begins his essay by introducing the essence of an author as an individualization of many different fields including knowledge‚ sciences‚ literature‚ etc. Without addressing anything directly‚ he focuses right on the relationship between an author and a text‚ regarding that the text points toward the author as a figure who has created and is on the exterior of the text. Foucault begins his thesis with a quote by Beckett to summarize the theme of his essay
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