Michel Foucault

Friedman argues that, “the great achievement of capitalism,” unlike what its critics claim, has not been “accumulation of property” but instead “the opportunities it has offered to men and women to extend and develop and improve their capacities” (Friedman, 2002: 169). Neoliberal advocates at the World Bank who draw from Friedman’s promises of freedom of choice and progress, have developed a promising “all inclusive” Kurdistan Vision 2020. They too argue their vision is for the greater good of…

WITHOUT PENS: WOMEN BEYOND HETERONORMY IN SHAMIM SARIF’S THE WORLD UNSEEN AND CHINELO OKPARANTA’S UNDER THE UDALA TREES Operational Definition of Terms and Acronyms • Heteronormativity - Societal lifestyle and standards that prioritize heterosexual marriage and encourage the assumption that heterosexuality is the acceptable sexual orientation • LGBT - acronym standing for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender • Othered -To treat a person or groups of people as different and…

with the thin line between mental illness and self-expression. It was one of the first attempts to analyze the art of the mentally ill (Hauschild). Along with Prinzhorn, 20th century French philosopher and sociologist Michel Foucault had been doing some research of his own. Foucault suggested that, “‘madness’ was socially constructed to scapegoat and control people whom society found deviant”…

The Weberian argument states that the fear of eternal damnation has led to the rationalization process of hard work and asceticism; the capitalist ethos. Often, the idea of eternal suffering can also lead to multiple irrational behaviors. History attests to the countless number of human atrocities that have been committed in the name of religion. From the Buddhist Burma to the Islamic State, religion has often been used as a driving force for irrational and senseless actions, that somehow still…

The confession is essential to our western understanding of female self-identification. In our modern, digital culture the confessor understands herself “to be empowered through telling her own story” to her viewers (169). This culture of digital visibility is defined by an “obsessive preoccupation with the body—a shift from the feminist ‘I’ articulated through voice to a post-feminist ‘I’ expressed through the body” (168). The preoccupation with the body creates a false sense of power. Real…

The death sentence as capital punishment is an example of how bio-power and necropolitics can be inextricably linked. Discuss. Bio-power is a concept developed by Michel Foucault. Essentially, bio-power looks at ‘docile bodies’ and how they are used by the state to increase the capital and production of the state. It poses the question; how can the health and well-being of the nation benefit the production of the nation state? Necropolitics builds on Foucault’s idea of bio-power. Bio-power is…

The last few chapters of Sexualities in Context talked a lot about sex and how it is viewed. I am supposed to talk about sex and its relationship to love and or intimacy, but I did not really get any connection between these three things in these chapters. However, I suppose I did not really get the connection if I am defining sex as the act of sex. In chapter 7, The Alphabet Soup of Sexualities, Plante defines and further explains all sexual orientations. Here, the word sex is thrown around in…

political problems. Butler confronts this. She does not suppose that the concept of "woman" is a well-defined classification. Society constructs subjects and then people come to represent them. Necessities preceded identity. When it reaches to Michel Foucault theory, the "idea" of a woman may make women isolated from their own society, there could be a deeper identity that defines the classification of a "woman." As long as feminism considers…

When I read these four articles about Marxists,Marxians and Marxish. I learned many things about social inequality. Firstly, let me summarize the arguments that the authors pointed out in the article. And then I will share some of my opinions and experiences relate to their arguments According to the article I read online. I discovered Engels and Marx pointed out how the worldview had changed into a form of materialistic nature. And their theories were much more different from other…

The origin of Postcolonial criticism was marked, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, by critics’ efforts to “undermine the text of colonial authority as well as to install a distance from the concepts of anticolonialist theory” (Parry, 2004: 67). It was referred to as ‘colonial discourse analysis’. Postcolonial criticism emerged with Edward W. Said’s Orientalism, it acquired the name ‘postcolonialism’ in the late 1980s. It is concerned with historical, political, cultural and textual outcomes of…