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Within his essay titled “Panopticism,” Michel Foucault discusses uses of power and discipline throughout different times in history. During the Plague era, people were forced to follow cautionary measures created by the government. In the 19th century, prisoners were molded into model citizens through no human contact and the fear of current observation. Finally, in present day, the tactics used within prisons can also be seen within schools, hospitals and factories. When these ideas are connected

In the article, Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault, he describes a social theory called panopticism. In Foucault’s panopticism he talks about the panopticon, an architectural plan that was created by Jeremy Bentham. The Prison structure of the twenty first century uses that same building design as the panopticon. We see how the plague town in the Panopticism shows a chain of authority. Prisons in the twenty first century use the same style of chain of authority in their correctional institutes

According to Michel Foucault, power is knowledge and knowledge is power. He also believed that as individuals, everyone will react to situations in different ways. Foucault said that power "reaches into the very grain of individuals, touches their bodies and inserts itself into their actions and attitudes, their discourses, learning processes and everyday lives."1 Foucault believed that knowledge is always a form of power, but he took it a step further and told us that knowledge can be gained from

exerted throughout the ritual at Kennedy Road Tabernacle in a Pentecostal church, demonstrating how those in power have control over the ones who are inferior or subordinate. Throughout this examination, I will use the theories of Louis Althusser and Michel Foucault to analyze the ways in which power is exerted within the members of this community. During my observations at our visit to the Pentecostal church, there was an unequal distribution of power between the men and women in labour divisions

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

Angela Carter’s novel, The Magic Toyshop, is filled with traits that resemble Michel Foucault’s philosophical work, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, even if Carter’s work does predate Foucault’s work. Uncle Philip, the antagonist, is able to monitor the members of his household without even being present in the house. He has made his wife completely subservient to him. Uncle Philip even extends his power to control relationships. Similarly, Margaret Atwood’s work, The Handmaid’s Tale

ntro : In the 1980’s the art world was gifted with the artist Jean michel basquiat. Basquiat, a man who lived two contrasting lives as street artist and “fine artist” in the art punk movement of the 1980’s. His work as a street artist was full of poetic and provocative messages painted in the streets of Manhattan New York, and his work as a “fine artist” did the same on gigantic canvases with looming figures in bold colours. Regardless of this dichotomy, his work in both of these practices has

golden age , the cruelty, the corruption and the culture of Europe, and show up that european insularity which condemns peoples as barbarous merely because of their manners and their dress are different.” page 31 In the article, ”On the cannibals,” by Michel De Montaigne explains people calling anything that they are unfamiliar with barbarous or uncivilized. The writer reverses the selfish or self-seeking European reliance belief in the superiority of Western culture. The myths of the Europeans is that

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 17th century French aristocrat Michel de Montaigne lived in a tumultuous world. With the spark of Luther’s Ninety-Five Theses, the fire spread rapidly to France. The nation divided against itself. The rebellious protestant Huguenots and the traditional staunch Catholics both viewed the other group as idolatrous heretics in time when that crime could justify execution. Consequently, Catholic monarchs throughout Europe felt the impending threat to their reigns, too, because if they supposedly ruled