Foucault

In his book “Discipline and Punish”, Foucault theorizes that we live in “disciplinary society,” and that power exercised through disciplinary means is found in modern day institution i.e. schools, Universities, prisons, the military and hospitals. Focalult says “classical times discovered the

punishment; the reformers, according to Foucault, were not motivated by a concern for the welfare of prisoners. But rather they wanted to make power operate more efficiently. “The prison, that darkest region in the apparatus of justice, is the place where the power

punished at all? In the book “The History of Sexuality”, Foucault talks about how confession has become most common technique in finding truth in Western society. Whether it be a confession to a higher authority or to ourselves, it serves to liberate us from our self imposed burdens. Foucault’s ideas on confession and the truths we learn from them, are important

to reconstruct the mode makes us familiar with the past. Foucault work was not to seek to reconstruct a history of marginality that

Foucault, From “What is an Author?” 1. In The Order of Things, Foucault analyzed discursive content in texts. a. Categories that are considered include “analysis of wealth,” “natural history,” and “political economy”. b. However, Foucault admits to neglecting authors’ names including Buffon, Cuvier, Ricardo, etc. 1. When trying to connect concepts and theoretical relationships, Foucault admits to not fully making connections in the past. 2. Using the authors’ names, however

MICHEL FOUCAULT Discources and Lifestyles Michel Foucault merupakan sosok yang unik dan agak sukar dipahami. Meskipun demikian, Foucault memberikan pengaruh dan sumbangan yang besar dalam bidang sosiologi, kebudayaan, politik, dan literatur. Foucault juga merupakan salah satu ilmuwan yang paling dibicarakan di era abad ke-20. Pemikiran-pemikiran Foucault cenderung agak sukar dipahami karena pemikirannya terus berkembang dan berubah dari waktu ke waktu. Oleh karena itu, cara terbaik untuk memahami

This paper will examine how Foucault establishes methods of questioning “facts” about identities through examination of power and discourses. Laqueur uses this method to discuss the social construction of gender based on interpretations of the body, and Butler supplements this claim with an argument about sex and desire. Foucault says that power is everywhere. It manifests itself in discourses that define the truths of the world and of ourselves. He uses sexuality to show that it is impossible to

Different utopia Foucault used term is "different utopia" to describe the significance of multiple layer or in other parts of the relationship than the space immediately meets the eye. In general, ectopic is a physical representation or a utopian approximation, or contains bad institutions to do a real utopian space may parallel the space. Foucault used mirror as the duality and conflict, reality and reality for the utopian project metaphor for the idea. Mirror is utopia, as you see it in the image

changed and efforts were made to reduce the suffering of the mentally ill. Michel Foucault in his pioneer work Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (1964) traces madness through the ages beginning with the medieval and down to the post Modern and he gives an overall/broad term describing the notion/concept of madness in each age. The Medieval notion/concept of madness was particularly “abandonment” where now the shunned and the repulsed was the madman instead of the

contains issues, effectively making Christianity synonymous with religion. On top of that, Foucault is criticized by Carrette for his lack of clarity and consistency concerning the relationship between speech and silence. According to Carrette, Foucault implores Christianity was a silencer of voices, while at the same time, be this power where is confession and certain speech is necessitated. It appears as though Foucault wanted to take silence, along with speech, and characterize the oppressive nature of