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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Bibliography: Ashenden‚ S. & Owen‚ D. (1999). Foucault contra Habermas: Recasting the dialogue between genealogy and critical theory. SAGE Publications Limited. Baylis et al. (5th Ed ). (2011). The Globalization of World Politics. Oxford University Press: New-York Dunne‚ T.‚ Kurki‚ M.‚ Smith‚ S McLead
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constructionist approaches to representation. Most of this text will be exploring the constructionist approach with two major variants or models of the constructionist approach‚ the semiotic approach- Ferdinand de Saussure and the discursive approach- Michel Foucault. But we have to answer the question first：what does the word representation really mean？ 1.1 Making meaning‚ Representing things Representation is the production of the meaning of the concepts in our minds through language. There are two processes
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twenty-three. Her autopsy states that she died form severe dehydration and malnutrition which both coincide with her possession by demons. Anneliese Michele was born September 21‚ 1952 in the winegrowing community of Klingenberg‚ Bavaria‚ Germany. Michel was raised in a very strict Catholic family in Bavaria‚ which rejected the reforms of Vatican II. Growing up she was woken up in the middle of the night by her mother to pray and drank holy water (Hall). After the changes to the Vatican II the family
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perspective of reality. This has been the context by which Michel Foucault built his overall frameworks of thought. As a philosopher and cultural historian‚ Foucault underscored in his writings that the fundamental ideas that people commonly consider as the permanent truths of their being have changed throughout the course of history. Without a doubt‚ with his unorthodox contemplations on the disciplinary society and the distortions of human sexuality‚ Michel Foucault’s influence to the postmodernist movement
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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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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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time of intense interaction with people and ideas. It is a time of passionate friendships and experimentation.” (468) Applying this concept to Girl‚ Interrupted unveils that psychosocial moratorium is essential to finding his or hers’ identity. In Michel Foucault’s “Panopticon‚” discipline further shows what is vital in finding his or hers’ true identity. Through psychosocial moratorium and discipline is where someone will find his or hers’ identity. In two specific scenes from Girl‚ Interrupted
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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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Madness and Civilization In Madness and Civilization‚ Michel Foucault discuses the history of insanity in Europe from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. He begins his analysis with the treatment of the lepers and criminals concluding with the treatment of the insane. As "madness" became part of everyday life‚ people of the time were though to be threatened by "madness". This sense of threat resulted in the hiding of the "mad" in early day asylum or "mad house"‚ whose conditions were inhumane
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