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    Visibility is a Trap

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    technology has changed the general way society behaves on the whole. We live in a world where there are cameras on every traffic light‚ tool booth‚ in every airport‚ every hospital‚ and every school or any social institution. In relation to Foucault’s Panopticism theory‚ people that are aware of the fact that at any given moment they can possibly be being watched‚ carry out their lives in such a way that reflects this knowledge. In the movie‚ The Bourne Legacy (2012)‚ The United States

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    Grime

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    It is 2002 in the South Bow council estate within the East End of London‚ England. The urban environment is made up of grotty beer can-strewn flats‚ mobile telephones running out of credit‚ bets on football matches‚ and televisions that are in need of repair. Away from the tower blocks are streets made up of corner-shop off-licences‚ pizza and burger establishments‚ and visits to cashpoint machines: “a lived culture rooted in a recognizable up British social reality” (Barron‚ 2013: 536) Rewinding

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    New Historicism is a literary theory based on the idea that literature should be studied and intrepreted within the context of both the history of the author and the history of the critic. Based on the literary criticism of Stephen Greenblatt and influenced by the philosophy of Michel Foucault‚ New Historicism acknowledges not only that a work of literature is influenced by its author’s times and circumstances‚ but that the critic’s response to that work is also influenced by his environment‚ beliefs

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    DISCIPLINE DISCIPLINE AD PUNISH- MICHEAL FOUCAULT The chapter on discipline begins with the seventeenth century image of the soldier. A soldier bore certain natural signs of strength and courage and marks of his pride and honor. These were characteristics which were already inherent in a soldier. By the late eighteenth century‚ a soldier became someone or rather something that can be made‚ like a required machine which can be constructed. The Classical Age discovered the body as a target and

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    Balance And The Panopticon

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    We live in a world where people are judged by their first impression. One can never truly behave how one wants to. Power helps regulate the actions of individuals‚ so that they do not become punished. If people are abnormal then they are separated from others. But the definition of abnormal varies around the world. Yet‚ who exactly is making us disciplined? There are some figures that we can and cannot see. It could obviously be the authorities‚ but it can also be a child near us that limits our

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    Cited: Bak‚ John S. “Escaping the Jaundiced Eye: Foucauldian Panopticism in Chaarlotte Perkins Gilman’s ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’.” Studies in Short Fiction 31.1 (Winter 1994): 39-46. Academic Search Premeir Ebscohost Research Databases. Midlands Technical College Library‚ Columbia‚ SC. 3/23/2009. <http://web3.epnet

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    id=4&hid=21 Gilman‚ Charlotte P. “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Exploring Literature. Ed. Frank Madden. New York: Pearson‚ 2009. 676-87. Print. Wang‚ Lin-lin. "Freed Or Destroyed:--A Study On ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’ From The Perspective Of Foucauldian Panopticism." US-China Foreign Language 5.3 (2007): 52-57. Academic Search Complete. Web. 20 Apr. 2012. http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=3&hid=21&sid=3b761a93-ab69-4cb3-9112-2a84a30f9e2f%40sessionmgr4

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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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    Michele Foucault Biopower

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    Michel Foucault wrote a book called History of Sexuality. In Part five of the book Right of Death and Power over Life‚ he discusses about the historical “Sovereign Power” where one is allowed to decide who has the right to live and who has the right to die. The sovereign uses his power over life through the deaths that he can command and uses his authority to announce death by the lives he can spare. Foucault then moves on to Disciplinary Power where he came up with the “Panopticon” where one

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    INTRODUCTION Rationale Modern technology has increased influence in contemporary society. It seems to be contributed many social opportunities. Understanding and taking advantage from technology is the main aspect in contemporary world which is approachable society. The research question about modern technology is seemed to advantage for study and analysis because technology is the most importance in society. Throughout two years experience in Industrial Engineering field‚ most of mass production

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