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In Part 3 Chapter of Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison, Foucault indicates that modern discipline and obedience is not a trait that humans have developed naturally. Instead, he suggests that this is the work of societies around the world, explaining that through institutions such as schools, hospitals, and prisons, society has, in a way, “brainwashed” us to become the ideal person. Are we truly free to do what we please? Foucault argues that most of our normal activities and behaviors

In Michele Foucault’s essay “Panopticism,” the contingent difficulties of the text seem to be this rhetoric’s most evident challenge; lots of languages littered throughout the piece that would not be primarily seen in typical conversation. When going through the piece, I often found myself needing to take brief hiatuses while reading when discovering a foreign word and either looking at possible context clues of these unfamiliar words or occasionally looking up their definitions on the internet to

Mind control is the most important purpose to controllers because once mind control completed, the power of control becomes so great that it not necessary to need violence and tight monitor. Foucault writes about the whole prison system in detail in Discipline and Punish. He divided the whole system into three stages, “the monarchial punishment, the reformer’s punishment and the modern punishment. The first one focus on the punishment of the body, which is the feels the pain of the body; the second

Foucault dates the completion of the carceral system to February 22, 1840: the date of the opening of Mettray prison colony. This colony is the disciplinary form at its most extreme. The chiefs and deputies at Mettray were technicians of behavior. Their task was to produce bodies that were docile and capable. Historians of the human sciences also date the birth of scientific psychology to this time. Mettray represented the birth of a new kind of supervision. Why choose this moment as the beginning

Jordan Lisse Mr. Topper World Literature November 6, 2014 Annotated Bibliography’s Aronson, Jamie. "Jules Verne." Jules Verne (2006): 1. Primary Search Main Edition. Web. 27 Oct. 2014. Jules Verne born in Nantes France he was 1 of 5 he gave up his job as a stock broker to write stories Jules Verne's stories predicted the future, he had a large influence by science and technology most of his works became classics, and realities. "Verne invented a future world full of technological devices

The Actor-Network Theory, also known as ANT, explores the way sociotechnological elements are assembled as well as how large-scale social structures work through various networks of stabilized materials. It considers both human and non-human actors, networks, and actor-networks. An actor is considered anything with the ability to act. This includes human and non-human entities. The network is what ties together people and objects, making the groups interconnected. The Actor-Network Theory looks at

of an individual’s ability to give and take agency can be explored in various aspects from everyday structures to within different essays. Agency is an individual’s ability to act or rebel in order to regain power. This is explored in depth within Michel Foucault’s essay, “Panopticism”, which focuses on power relations within Panoptic structures. Foucault explains that the Panopticon structure is “at the periphery, an annular building; at the center, a tower” (184). Essentially, this means that there

efficiency, in order to centralize the most power. As the world has grown, some have tended toward strict totalitarianism as others toward Capitalistic systems. Looking at Melville’s “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street” through the lens of Michel Foucault’s “Panopticism” gives light to the characteristics of a panoptic system used in Bartleby. The story incorporates these characteristics and anti-characteristics to show the effectiveness of a panoptic system. Melville, though, extends the

We tend to think of power as laws and the act of regulating behavior. In Butler’s Gender Trouble she talks about how power not only regulates but also forms who we are as individuals. For Foucault power comes from knowledge which he discusses in The History of Sexuality.\ Foucault discusses the concept of biopolitics, which links biological processes, such as the reproductive process which can be be controlled via birth control, to economic or political power, for example when the government controls

Power Structures in Nickel and Dimed The United States prides itself on being a democracy in which equal opportunity and the pursuit of happiness are guaranteed rights for all citizens. There is no uncertainty in the loyalty that Americans have towards this promise of natural, unalienable rights. However, as Michael Foucault explains in Discipline and Punish, the power structures present in society infringe on our rights to equal opportunity and happiness by forcing us to abide by social norms and