Foucault

after the brief cultural and political event known as May 68 in France. Archaeology constitutes a way of doing historical analysis of systems of thought or discourse. To be more precise archaeology seeks to describe the archive, he term employed by Foucault to refer to “the general system of formation

Running head: Opposing Viewpoints 1 Opposing Viewpoints of Foucault and Rayner Analyzed through Ethos, Logos, and Pathos Jarod Kane October 10th, 2016 Radford University Opposing Viewpoints 2 Whether we like it or not the society that currently exists is Panoptic, with cameras on every street corner or even just the constant surveillance of the internet we are always being watched and have lost our privacy in lieu of our own safety. Panopticism, the idea that someone is always being watched and thus

power over Trump, the normalization of sexual assault in mainstream society means these discourses have had little effect. While Foucault analyzes the Victorian view of sexuality through the repressive hypothesis, the same can be done for a contemporary view of sexuality. There are specific concepts and ideas which are considered acceptable to the public sphere. Foucault says that this is a “policing of sex: that is, not the rigor of a taboo, but the necessity of regulating sex through useful and

Both Scott and Foucault think power is more than being a form of coercion, that power is found in symbolic dimensions. Scott stated power and resistance can be spotted and take forms in language and discourse, that is conversation, statement, narratives made by the dominant and subordinates, in terms of what he purposes ‘public transcript’ and ‘hidden transcript’ accordingly. Similarly, Foucault see power as coextensive with language and discourse. However, Scott and Foucault has very different

Foucault once stated, “Our society is one not of spectacle, but of surveillance; under the surface of images, one invests” (301). By this, he means that our society is full of constant supervision that is not easily seen nor displayed. In his essay, Panopticism, Foucault goes into detail about the different disciplinary societies and how surveillance has become a big part of our lives today. He explains how the disciplinary mechanisms have dramatically changed in comparison to the middle ages. Foucault

to be a "structuralist" interpretation of the prison, the book is in many ways an attempt to give a theoretical grounding to what Foucault had seen, to explain the conditions and structures of the places he visited in terms of the operation of power in society. Three influences are particularly important in Discipline and Punish: Nietzsche, structuralism and Foucault 's political activism. None entirely explain his project, however. There has been a shift in types of punishment for criminals. Once

my idea of power to a combination of Foucault and Hobbe’s notion of power. This mountain range is made of different aspects of society like school, friendship, etc. One example would be a mountain of law. Below the clouds are the people who are dictated by the panopticon that is regulation such as traffic tickets. Above the cloud cover is the law or the police officers. This cloud cover inflicts “a sense of conscious and permanent visibility of power”(Foucault, 929). The people know that the law is

Foucault examines madness in the 18th and 19th century in his study. He shows the kinds of craziness if understood like that, the term craziness as Foucault defines it, isn’t a bad term or to be ashamed of, it all started with leprosy, which is an infectious disease that was in the renaissance era, and with the results of this disease, the government had to lock the sick people in order to keep sovereignty in the kingdom because this disease destroyed a lot of habitant areas in Europe, and from this

from everywhere.” (p. 93) The discourse of sexuality and the transition of administering sex from ‘the norm,’ to ‘the unnatural,’ has sublimated the source of power from descending, to descending and ascending consensually. The act of confessing, Foucault reasons, has subjugated populations to the point where it is an “obligation,” to liberate us. (p. 60) The normative significance of confession originates from the Reformation during “the mid-sixteenth century in Nürnberg, (Nuremerg) Germany, by preachers

Foucault “I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.” How has Foucault used history as a form of comparison to analyse the present? The French philosopher Michel Foucault was best known for pioneering the ‘historian system’ of thought within the field of philosophy (Agamben G 2012). Foucault’s contribution to the philosophical community is his way of thinking. He worked on viewing social phenomena in a historical context focusing on the changes made throughout history