Michel de Montaigne

In part three, Scientia Sexualis, of “The History of sexuality” Foucault focuses on power structures of confession and the medical field, Foucault asks “how did this immense and traditional extortion of the sexual confession come to be constituted in scientific terms?”(Foucault pg. 65) Foucault was concerned with how talking about sex became a specific issue in the sciences, especially the medical sciences. Foucault provides an answer to this question with five critical points. In unpacking…

The film, "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind," directed by Michel Gondry, is a critically acclaimed science fiction/romance. This film follows Joel Barish's and Clementine Kruczynski's separation after a miserable, two-year relationship. They both separately undergo a procedure performed by the Lacuna Company. The company's technicians have the technology that allows them to erase people's memories and certain past experiences, in which the procedure takes place while the person is a sleep.…

The two theorist that I have chosen to characterize are Herbert Marcuse and Michel Foucault. First, I am going to start with Michel Foucault. Foucault is widely known for shaping the understanding of power. According to Foucault, power is what shapes us as humans. “Foucault uses the term ‘power/knowledge’ to signify that power is constituted through accepted forms of knowledge, scientific understanding and ‘truth’” (PowerCube.) Foucault states that power and knowledge go hand in hand. Foucault…

Jeremy Bentham model called panopticon, is proposed for places where it is ideal to have high surveillance on the occupants and limiting their knowledge of the people watching them. Bentham believed that people better behave themselves when their actions are being watched by an unknown. Bentham explained in an example that a warden served as the overseer and the prisoners the ones being surveilled. The prisoners would be controlled by the deterrence of severe punishment if they were caught.…

Millbrook 's world was a whole different world than I had ever been exposed to. We had a very strict schedule filled with school six days a week, community service, sports, and study hall. Continuing with Weber’s “work hard achieve success” way of thinking, I put all my effort in each and every one of my classes. I worked hard in every aspect of my life and barely had a chance to take a breath. Four days per week, for a total of 2 hours, students and faculty devote time to service. Respect,…

"Panopticism" is a social theory created by Michel Foucault in his book Discipline and Punish. He defines this term as “the general principle of a new 'political anatomy ' whose object and end are not the relations of sovereignty but the relations of discipline" (Foucault 191). In other words, Foucault believes that institutions like the military, schools, and hospitals are controlled by requiring everyone to obey the rules and by punishing those who do not follow the rules to improve the…

This Asian youth study has defined the neoliberal objectification of Chinese education through the PRC within the context of a Foucauldian and Marxists analytical perspective. Woronov’s (2004, 2009) analysis of the Chinese educational system defines the overt changes in PRC policies towards a more privatized and neoliberal vision of education for young people in China. In this perspective, Foucault defines the “power” of the government to defined on the conduct of governmental activities that…

Secondly, with the understanding of how Foucault’s impressions and theories about the contemporary politics of surveillance and how we live in a society where discipline is the mechanism of power being the factor of regulating our behaviours to an ethical extent. We will see the applications of modern surveillance technologies and how they influence the behaviours of individuals encouraging law abiding activities and discouraging politically incorrect activities. There are three main…

Approach The Soviet 60s had similar cultural processes to those in Western Europe: it was a time of intellectual protest and liberalization. While France had the Revolution of 1968, the Soviet intellectual started liberty rights movement and in the 1970s, they were ostracized as dissidents. Strikingly, Bakhtin’s culture theory has similarities with French philosophical systems of the same time. First, his approach reminds of Foucault’s “History of Sexuality” and Guattari’s “Chaosmosis.”…

In this essay, I will be discussing Michel Foucault “The Birth of Biopolitics”. These lectures took place at the college de France in 1978-1979. I will be answering the question ‘What does Michel Foucault understand to be specific differences between the liberalism of the eighteenth century England and the Neo-liberalism of twentieth century United States insofar as both are modes of governmentality?’ I will analyze the differences between liberalism and neo-liberalism. In addition, I will also…