Michel Foucault

Walmart Supermarket Audit Even though supermarkets are less than 100 years old, they have greatly expanded and are located all over the world today. The supermarket has come a long way since it first began in the early 1900s. To show just how popular and vast supermarkets are, the “total amount of profit Walmart makes every minute is $34,880” (Walmart Company Statistics). I chose Walmart to do my observation, because a shopper can purchase items such as pet food, clothes electronics, as well as…

Ishwar Singh finally enters a house where he murders several people and then makes a grab for a young, pretty girl and carries her some distance with the purpose of raping her at an abandoned place. It is his intention as he describes in his words using a metaphor from a game of cards to “shuffle her a bit”. It is only after a while he realizes that he has committed rape on a dead girl. During his next meeting with Kalwant Kaur at her house, he indulges in a flirtatious banter with her…

How can Austen's Mansfield Park be read within the New Historicist argument suggested by Stephen Greenblatt; the ideological paradigm where there is no room for dissent? Or how can Austen herself be understood either as a novelist or as a historian, especially with her great role in nation building, according to the definition of a nation suggested by Homi Bhabha? While Richard Allen's emphasis the complex symbolic in the literary works that propagate specific ideological structures (Allen. 11),…

For decades, scores of African individuals and their families have made the conscious decision –motivated either by cultural ties, economics, war, the environment, or political unrest – to undertake the transnational journey of relocation to France. Such a monumental, intercontinental journey carries with it significant socio-political implications for immigrants, especially with regards to families. For many Africans, France, a nation with strong historical and colonial ties to the continent of…

adults in a society. It is defined by how one feels and chooses to identify oneself. Primitive society had a collective sexuality. Michel Foucault‘s The History of Sexuality (three volume 1978-1986) is one of the foundation of sexuality. According to Foucault sexuality is historically evolved. He claims that sexuality is a construct with social and cultural origins. Foucault claims that sexuality stands for a powerful, anarchic force that always threatens…

uses the history of the word art and how it came about to give the audience such as myself a brief understanding of how that word came about and what the people used to do before knowing such term. Dean later uses many credible sources such as, Michel Foucault and Esther Pasztory which provides a perception as the reason why the opinions and facts that Dean provides throughout the article is reasonable and…

Fahrenheit 451 is a futuristic novel about a technologically advanced dystopian society, written by Ray Bradbury in 1953. Bradbury depicts a society that is completely content with the suppression of alternative knowledge and learning. The novel reveals that nobody has meaningful conversations, reads books, or explores nature. Instead they are filled with “noise” from televisions that are as large as house walls, radio broadcasts through “seashell” earbuds, or repetitive commercials on…

Murray draws the example of funerals and tributes. Similarly, In The Spectacle of the Scaffold, Michel Foucault discusses another way crowds “assemble in the name of death” (73): public executions. For Foucault, the purpose of public executions was two fold: to set an example to the commonwealth in order to deter anyone else from committing a crime, but more importantly, as a display of power. Holding…

Lila Abu-Lughod was born in 1952 to sociologist, Janet Abu-Lughod and the late Palestinian academic and intellectual, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod. Abu-Lughod studied at Carleton College (1974) and Harvard University (1984) and is currently a Professor of Anthropology and Women’s and Studies at Columbia University (Institute for Middle East Understanding 2015). She is married to Timothy Mitchell, a political theorist and historian who also works at Columbia University. According to her biography on the…

beginning of his chapter, “Panopticism”, Foucault suggests that a plague itself may be a form of discipline. A plague is not bias, when it falls upon a town or country, anyone can be effected. A plague is unique but, in a negative way. There is not much known about the disease that is spreading, and therefore the unknown is dangerous. People are fearful because they do not know what has caused the plague or how it spreads. On the website Michel Foucault Info, Foucault says, “The plague is…