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Maranatha High School Final Draft: The Foucault Pendulum Amanda Dundas (5) Honors Algebra 2 (Group A) Ms. Monica Chan 3 April 2017 Abstract The Foucault Pendulum I chose to do my project on the Foucault Pendulum because it seemed interesting and I had seen a model at the Griffith Observatory when I visited there. I am also taking physics this year as well as chemistry and have learned a little bit about the Foucault Pendulum but I wanted to do more research beyond

In Part V of The History of Sexuality, Volume 1, Michel Foucault documents the historical shift from a sovereign power concentrated in death to a normalized, institutionalized regulation of life focused in part on the control of sexuality. He argues that this movement marks not only a reconceptualization of the living subject as a valuable source of both labor and production but also a new political interest in sex as a site of surveillance, classification, and management. Individuals in the contemporary

Stability in terms of society can be defined as the state in which power is clear and defined, and the constituents abide to those in power. In modern day institutions, a certain amount of stability must exist or people would lack the motivation to get work done and would not respond to authority. To ensure motivation, employers will install cameras, or use other techniques to always keep an eye on their workers. If people are doing nothing wrong, there is no reason to have a problem with being watched

Michael Foucault wrote Discipline and Punish: Panopticism, in 1975. He begins by describing the actions that were implemented to control and eradicate the plague, like through quarantine, mandatory separation, and etc. The plague was met by order to purify the people. He also notes that lepers were, too, separated from society and met by order to purify the community. Foucault claims that the disciplinary tactics used during the plague were the foundation to the discipline that followed and it could

claim that truth and knowledge are not important and is the centre of the discussion of identity, power and change. There is a notion ‘attitude’. Attitude is a dispositional model that is used in the discipline of psychology and opinions. Michel Foucault was a French philosopher and has a background in psychology. He was interested in how knowledge and power were used as a shape of social control through institutions. Discourses displays our knowledge of the world. In Foucault’s view, knowledge and

knowledge of Foucault and his theory, and raised more questions than answers, which were helped by discussion in the seminar. The importance of rereading these key critical theories and explaining them in my own words was highlighted by this presentation, as doing so was fundamental to my understanding. Researching further for the presentation was also indicative of the further research needed for other theories across the module in order to aid my understanding. The repressive hypothesis Foucault deals

In his book, Michael Foucault discusses the history of sexuality and the way in which power and knowledge have played a role in the “repression” of sexuality. Despite historical statements, Michael disagrees with the fact that power solely serves the purpose of repression. Rather he argues how power and knowledge are both repressive and productive. In regards to power, in Part 5 of his book, Foucault contrasts two claims of power. They are “Right of Death” and “Power over Life.” These were privileges

Though Bartkey’s argument demonstrates logic and cohesive arguments, she fails to impress readers with her solution to end the legacy of the docile women. Sandra Bartkey commences her argument with an introduction to Michel Foucault. She explains how Foucault demonstrates the presence of self-policing in society through the usage of the Panopticon. The Panopticon is a prison where there stands one central guard tower and rows of prison cells surrounding the tower. Sunlight shines into the cells

Throughout many different mediums such as literature and music there have been many controversial pieces written in regards to the true meaning and purpose of authorship. Several French philosophers such as Roland Barthes and Michel Foucault have written essays on the purpose of authorship. Roland Barthes, writer of “The Death of the Author”, has a strong belief in the removal of the author from a piece. Barthes believed that once a book has been written there is no more author but instead a scriptor

The Digital Panopticon: Foucault and Internet Privacy In 1977, Michel Foucault wrote in Discipline and Punish about the disciplinary mechanisms of constant and invisible surveillance in part through an analysis of Jeremy Bentham's panopticon. The panopticon was envisioned as a circular prison, in the centre of which resided a guard tower. Along the circumference, individuals resided in cells that were visible to the guard tower but invisible to each other. Importantly, this guard tower was backlit