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  • Rules Are Made Brought To Death World
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    Michael Foucault's writing in Right of Death and Power Over Life is one of the most confusing and difficult pieces of literature I have ever read. He thinks that the world was not created to have rules and laws; and by creating these laws we are just creating problems for the entire world. Foucault says that if a king were to wage war on his enemy, and required that his men fight, then the king is not directly proposing their death, because it was an indirect power of life or death. However if t...
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  • Cultural Criticism And Frankenstein
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    Goal of cultural criticism is to oppose culture with a capital C. The view of culture, which always and only equates it with what we call high culture. Cultural critics want to make term culture refer to popular culture as well as the classics Break down the boundary between high and low and dismantle the hierarchy that the distinction implies Cultural critics want to get us away from thinking about certain works as the best ones produced by a given culture (and therefore as the novels that best...
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  • Form Of Power Order To Obtain
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    For at least two decades discipline has been at or near the top of the list of public concerns about our schools. 1 Nor should this surprise us; developing the mix of foresight, judgement, and self-control that enables (or perhaps just constitutes) "discipline" is an important task of childhood. As long as schools are places where part of a childs education takes place, helping children develop discipline will be one of the "problems" that is, legitimate tasks that schools face. However, when us...
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  • Power Goes To Teachers Students And Discipline
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    ... e we all, teachers are subject to the subtle, nearly invisible workings of power. McNeil shows us how teachers are affected in ways that are extremely difficult to observe. 12 The teachers she presents to us are bright, intelligent professionals with a great deal of expertise in their areas. Mcneil's question when she began her project was why course content so often is shallow, simplistic, and disconnected from authentic scholarship. The common hypothesis is that teachers are the least inte...
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  • Edgar Allen Poe Sigmund Freud
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    History, has been, and will continue to be, an important part of society. Frederick Jackson Turner once said, Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with references to the conditions uppermost in its own times. (New) Today our culture views some events as significant and others that have impacted society just as much, oftentimes do not receive as much credit. The Discourse on Language, by Michel Foucault, encompasses reasons our societ...
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  • Tao Te Ching Person Or Group
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    The philosopher Michel Foucault and the ancient chinese sage Lao Tzu are separated by some twenty centuries. This seems to be of minor consequence, however, when it comes to the essence of their ideas. Both figures deal with concepts that explore the relationship between society and power. Specifically, the ways in which social bodies gain or lose power. In this paper, I will use their ideas to support my theory that equality is impossible in social interactions. These interactions may range in ...
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  • Michel Foucault Tele Screen
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    # 8220; A Fatal Utopia"Two ways of exercising power over men, of controlling their relations, of separating out their dangerous mixtures. The plague stricken town, transverse throughout with hierarchy, surveillance, observation, writing; the town immobilized by the functioning of an extensive power that bears in a distinct way over all individual bodies-this is the utopia of the perfectly governed city" (Page 6 Michel Foucault) This quote extracted from the Essay Panopticism written by Michel Fo...
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  • Live In A World Iron Cage
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    ... s. Products are produced and marketed collectively, no matter how seriously industry tries to diversify product lines. What I would like to argue here is that consumers are incorporated into the capitalist system, not by the compulsive exercise of power by industry, but as a result of the interaction with industry. In other words, consumers can make their decisions through the interaction with industry by way of commodities, and in this interaction, categorization works as a determinant fact...
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  • Michel Foucault Psychological Effect
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    In "Panopticism" Michel Foucault describes the "practices of investigation" which in turn gave rise to a society that was under constant surveillance. Soon the society became a "disciplinary" society. Michel Foucault explains the study and effect of "Panopticism" which gave rise to many social sciences, which included sciences of man, or human behavior. It is evident that the effect of "Panopticism" had a great psychological effect on the disciplined society. Why would a society that encouraged ...
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  • Discourse Theory And Orientalism Views From Foucault Said
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    Discourse Theory and Orientalism: Views from Foucault and Said Said describes Orientalism as, ... the generic term that I have been employing to describe the Western approach to the Orient; Orientalism is the discipline by which the Orient was (and is) approached systematically, as a topic of learning, discovery and practice. (Said, p. 77) By this, Said is saying because we treated the East like a school subject, we have learned to treat the East as an inferior. Which has developed into somethin...
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  • Allen Unwin 1988 Pp
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    ... 144) argues: All of us, men as much as women, are caught up in modes of self production and self observation... Women are no more subject to this system of corporeal production than men; they are no more cultural, no more natural, than men. Patriarchal power relations do not function to make women the objects of disciplinary control while men remain outside of disciplinary surveillance. It is a question not of more or less but of differential production... In contrast to the traditional argu...
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  • Horror Films Blair Witch
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    Horror Films Recent years have seen a glorious revival of American horror cinema with films such as Scream and The Blair Witch Project re-introducing moviegoers to the joys of high-caliber fright flicks. Sadly, however, British attempts to capitalize on the genre's return from the grave have been embarrassing to say the least, with films such as Revelation and Long Time Dead boring audiences and making hardcore horror fans yearn for death's sweet embrace. So, it comes as an enormous relief to re...
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  • Laws Of Nature State Of Nature
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    The Title Is Not Indicated In Assignment. The theory of power is the question the best world philosophers have been interested in since the ancient times. What is power? How should it interact with the individuals? The theories of power, its nature and relations with the people were studying by the outstanding philosophers, thinkers and scientists. One of the brilliant thinkers of the 17 th century was Thomas Hobbes. Hobbes noted that the man in his nature lives to survive. He stated that the ma...
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  • Mentally Ill Mental Illness
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    Art Created by the Insane and How its Used in Determining Illness There is no doubt that the art produced by the patients of mental institutions has a value. The problem is how we define the essence of this value. Can we attach cultorological properties to such art or should we only be interested in it from the medicinal point of view? In this essay I will briefly outline the history of this new concept and will also analyze it from the context of our understanding of madness in its development....
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  • People In Power Age Of Enlightenment
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    Discipline is an action, or idea that has been around for hundreds of years. We are all familiar with it, as we experience some form of it every day. As Foucault describes, before the age of enlightenment, the ways of punishing deviants was pure physical torture. During this time, the person who had the ability to inflict physical pain on an individual had power over that person. As in most cases, the tormentors were part of the Kings staff, or a normal citizen outraged by the act the criminal c...
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  • Emile Durkheim Michel Foucault
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    This paper is an attempt to do something that is probably not a good idea. I am going to try and take the ideas of some of the most prominent postmodern Sociological thinkers and mesh them together in some sort of coherent format. The purpose of this paper is to provide a starting place for people interested in postmodern Sociological thought. There really is no one all-encompassing postmodern theory, or a group of like-minded postmodern theorists. In fact this notion is antithetical to much of ...
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  • Rule Of Law Drug Addict
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    LAW AND SOCIAL THEORY 2000 SESSION ONE TAKE-HOME EXAMINATION (NO. 2) QUESTION 4 The process by which the bourgeoisie became in the course of the eighteenth century he politically dominant class was masked by the establishment of an explicit, coded and formally egalitarian juridical framework, made possible by the organization of a parliamentary, representative regime. But the development and generalization of disciplinary mechanisms constituted the other, the dark side of these processes The rea...
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  • Disciplinary Society Moral Codes
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    ? ? ? ? ? ? Both Michel Foucault and Truffaut's depiction of a disciplinary society are nearly identical. But Truffaut's interpretation sees more room for freedom within the disciplinary society. The difference stems from Foucault's belief that the social control in disciplinary pervades all elements of life and there is no escape from this type of control. Foucault's work deals mostly with power and his conception of it. Like Nietzsche, Foucault sees power not as a fixed quantity of physical fo...
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  • Studies On Hysteria Brother In Law
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    Aristotle once stated in Metaphysics that, All men by nature desire Knowledge. If one accepts the claim that knowledge is power, then it will be logical to assert that all people want power. The person or persons that have knowledge also acquire the power of that knowledge. In Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish he clearly shows the power-knowledge relationship that is prevalent in society both on the large and small scale, and how these affect society as a whole. Whereas, Sigmund Freud who ...
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  • Status Quo Social Consciousness
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    &# 65279; TOWARDS A CONSTITUTIVE THEORY OF LAW CRITICAL LEGAL STUDIES -background of Critical Legal Studies-Critical Legal Studies v. Realism-Critical Legal Studies v. Legal Liberalism-the Critical Legal Studies position: 1) law is indeterminate i. e. law does not determine legal decisions. 2) legal decisions are dependent on the outcome of a series of contradictions in the law. 3) the way that the judges exercise their choice, and they way that contradictions in law are resolved, usually acts t...
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