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Michel Foucault states in Discipline and Punishment that “the Panopticon is a marvelous machine which, whatever use one may wish to put it to, produces homogeneous effects of power” (Foucault 188). Examining the evolution, physical characteristics, and psychological effects of the Panopticon allows one to understand the mechanism by which the Panopticon produces power. Most inventions develop through an evolutionary process while attempting to improve a situation or solve a problem. Often, a

In “Of Cannibals,” Michel de Montaigne creates an atmosphere of tension between the New World barbarians and the Old World Europeans through his comparison of each group’s eating habits, marriage customs, and war practices. However, Montaigne’s essay is more than just a proof for a superior ethnography, as this comparison only appears at the midpoint of the piece. Prior to this, Montaigne’s introduction is filled with historical allusions, vignettes, and references to geographical transformation

Discourses 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

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

banding the borderline between sanity and madness. Such a situation evokes questions about the nature of madness and its understanding in our world. From the philosophical perspective, this topic has been raised by numerous philosophers; among whom Michel Foucault, in the book Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, is the most famous for his critique of the post-Enlightenment attitude

Michel de Montaigne The world is a place of chaos nowadays. At every turn of a corner, there is desolation triggered from humanity's sidetracked views of what the world is about. With all this deception and superficiality, pureness in the human soul seems almost non-existent. Michel de Montaigne recognizes the essential need of this purity for the improvement of society in his Essays. Although the main topics he is focusing own are his own nature, own habits, and own opinions, he uses these

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

constant, omnipresent observation. Although the words “power” and “discipline” frequently come with an adverse connotation of punishment and repression, they actually possess multiple productive uses in a variety of social institutions and relations. In Michel Foucault’s Discipline & Punish, he discusses the nature of power in society: how it can not only be used for discipline, but also potentially implemented as a productive influence. Foucault did not view power as a necessarily restrictive and repressive

Jean-Michel Basquiat Jean-Michel Basquiat was a writer, performer, and graffiti wonder in late-1970s New York, he had sharpened his mark painting style of over the top jotting, slippery images and charts, and cover and-skull symbolism when he was 20. Basquiat drew his subjects from his own particular Caribbean legacy. His dad was Haitian and his mom of Puerto Rican drop and a joining of African-American, African, and Aztec social histories with Classical topics and contemporary legends like competitors

never again feel this type of agony. If possible, would you eradicate the memory of another human? In the movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Joel Barish (Jim Carrey) and Clementine Kruczynski (Kate Winslet) do exactly this. Directed by Michel Gondry, this American romantic comedy wonderfully expresses the idea that a person’s memories are fundamental in human growth. Through cinematography, lighting, and character development, Gondry successfully directs one of the best twenty-first-century