Foucault

incorporate into the following essay. Michel Foucault, an icon in contemporary social theory, theorized mainly about discipline, power, and subjectivity. Pierre Bourdieu, also an icon in contemporary social theory, theorized about the interrelationship between structure and agency. Finally, Donna Haraway’s work in postmodern social theory, or more specifically her essay, A Cyborg Manifesto, will be analyzed in the following essay. To conclude, the works of Foucault, Bourdieu, and Haraway, are crucial to

American Literature of the 20th Century: From Panopticon to Synopticon   American Literature of the 20th Century: From Panopticon to Synopticon Panopticon is essentially an architectural concept developed by Bentham in the late 18th century (Foucault, Panopticism). The image of the Panopticon underlines Foucault’s notion of the individualization of the masses. Contradicting this theory is the notion of the synopticon, which is essentially the antithesis of the panopticon (Brunon-Ernst and Tusseau)

societies maintain this dominance through either keeping family unit but using subliminal mind control, or forming new types of family unit that are “more beneficial to the society as whole” for the purpose of creating supporters of the regime. Life of Chaos, Life of Hope: Dystopian Literature for Young Adults is a thesis of a considerable importance, in which Lisa Newgard describes the themes reviewed in dystopian literature for young adults. Those themes include government control, social conformity

power, man has purpose, and man has ideas. Ideas like what makes a king powerful, is it his ideas or his army? He talks about, “Detached and idealistic, values, instead of dominating and guiding action, turn against action and condemn it.” Which Foucault talks about

Problem Statement, Background, and Research Interest The Curriculum Policy Statement of the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE, 2001), the accrediting body of all bachelor 's and master 's social work degree programs in the United States, requires all social work programs to teach students how to promote economic and social justice. The revised Code of Ethics (1996) of the National Association of Social Workers proclaims the pursuit of social justice one of the profession 's core values and

Gillian Rose begins chapter one with a quote from Stuart Hall, which is “culture is concerned with the production and exchange of meanings” (Hall, 1997: 6), this quote emphasizes the main idea of the chapter because the significance is we determine the image and create our own meaning. Rose continues by explaining that this meaning that we create can vary, as it “may be explicit or implicit, conscious or unconscious” (Rose, 2001:6), all images are created by the viewer’s experience and it differs

panoptic, all-seeing power described in Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. The opening of Foucault’s Discipline and Punish parallels the novel’s idea of completion by mentioning the “completion of the carceral system.” Foucault dates the completion of the carceral system to the official opening of Mettray, the disciplinary institution he recognizes as the ‘ideal’ panoptic prison and the “disciplinary form at its most extreme.” Using Foucault’s Discipline and Punish as a

fullest extent. Only showing this “front-stage” performance leads to showing other users an altered version of themselves. This in turn leads to feelings of depression, anxiety, and lowering of self-esteem because it is mostly a false sense of self. Foucault would have viewed social media as the most effective modern day panoptic model. These outlets hold the power and capability of controlling individuals and instilling fear and discipline. Social media even surpasses the expectations of Foucault’s

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick's Tendencies: Queerness and Oppression Over the last two decades or so, the idea of queerness is one that has been utilized and considered by individuals and communities of marginalized sexualities and genders. The concept is one that has attempted to broaden and deconstruct traditional notions of gender and sexuality in order to include all of their incarnations as valid experiences and identities. Queerness endeavors to include all of those who feel they are a part of

Similar to how Kant perceives the enlightenment as a process of action, where the individual must courageously will itself out of immaturity, Foucault sees the inheritance of the enlightenment not as a set of values, but rather a state of mind and a way of life. That is, what connects us to the Enlightenment “is not faithfulness to doctrinal elements, but rather the permanent reactivation of an attitude”, of which is a “permanent critique of our historical era”. In both cases (that of the enlightenment