Discipline And Punish Analysis

During winter break, Hofstra’s Honors College provided me with the opportunity to participate in their Shadowship program, where students shadow Honors College alumni at their place of work for a day. So, for one day in early January, three Hofstra students and I were able to go to Northwell Health (previously known as Northshore LIJ) and visit their finance department, with Honors College alumni, Michelle Albanese. The day consisted of the four of us meeting her department members and some of the company’s senior executives, as well as learning about the healthcare industry, with regards to business and finance. Albeit it having been a very beneficial day, I couldn’t shake the feeling of how competitive the environment was. There is a concept, …show more content…
In Michel Foucault’s “Discipline and Punish”, Foucault creates an example of a seventeenth century soldier versus an eighteenth century soldier, and how the latter can be made and transformed into what the former needed to be born as. Our academic system follows this same structure of the body being “the object of imperious and pressing investments”, where it is “in the grip of very strict powers, which imposed on it constraints, prohibitions or obligations.” Therefore, we are each taught the same methods of the discipline of business and are expected to use these identical methods to compete with each other. In a way, one can say that it is an even harder version of the Hunger Games (with all the death and blood replaced with crippling failure and lack of money due to being jobless!). The only aspect that makes it harder is that some are trained much more than others, such as the Career tributes, and therefore can logically win faster; the competition would be much harder if the game only consisted of Career tributes who are all trained to