Michel Foucault

power to control the actions of other, power over other individuals. Second being the ability to control resources, to acquire certain desires (John Allen, 1997). The third being the power within the processes and operations carried out daily (Michel Foucault). Space the colonists would either have direct or indirect control over the territory. According to Mahmood Mamdani, colonialism can either be successful by “direct rule” or “indirect rule”. Direct ruling involves the colonists having…

These movements tease apart the human/nonhuman binary through their use of transhuman figures. This approach fully materializes later in 20th century Postmodern and Posthumanist thinking, with the likes of theorists Michel Foucault and Judith Butler, and biologist Julian Huxley, who coined the term “transhumanism” in his essay of the same name. Just as Postmodernist thinking argues for the necessity of deconstructing categories and the ways of thinking built upon them, Futurism…

In ‘The Rhetoric of Empire’, David Spur explores the discourse that Western journalists, travel writers and imperial administrators have used to depict the non-Western world using tropes, which he identifies through a careful analysis, tracing various sorts of writings from different historical contexts, and studying the way in which these tropes have been deployed. Among these rhetorical modes are surveillance, classification, and affirmation; framing these themes proves very much useful, as it…

informative genre, but if the news article also contains little text and numerous photos, it can also fit into the photo essay genre. Furthermore, a genre can depend on the view of the audience, whom also may be considered authors according to Michel Foucault. For example, one reader may view an essay as informative, but another reader may view the essay as persuasive. In this essay two articles were chosen about vegetarianism. The first article is a peer reviewed article from the ‘British…

William Shakespeare’s Midsummer Night’s Dream illustrates the wavering love between characters Lysander, Hermia, Demetrius and Helena. Shakespeare highlights that humans are primarily governed by individual emotion, rather than reason. This is very apparent in the passage, at the beginning of Act Five. Theseus states: “Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, such shaping fantasies that apprehend more than cool reason ever comprehends” (5.1. 4-6). This passage is important because it…

Liam O’Meara Anthropology 103 Amster 4/4/24. Righteous Dopefiend The "Righteous Dopefiend" by Philippe Bourgois looks into the lives of homeless heroin addicts in San Francisco and sheds light on the daily struggles and the cultural dynamics that shape their existence and public/societal image. This paper aims to identify the main points of the book, examine its key arguments, and explore the book's insights revolving around the marginalized population that is Homeless Drug addicts.…

My research will be aimed at answering the question: What role should virtual social movements play within China 's “Great Firewall”? The issue deals with the fact that there is abundant censorship, not just on the Chinese web, but throughout China in general. Social media has the distinct feature of being a tool that can reach millions of people faster and without nearly as much censorship as other forms of collective action. My argument is that virtual social movements in China, have the…

The history of love and sexuality is one of complicated circumstances in which many historians have both agreed and disagreed on the foundation of ideals that shaped it. In order to study the history of love and sexuality one must first look at how modernity shaped gender, marriage, emotions, and sex. Modernity which Matt and Stearns would define as the period in which the “rise of science, some political systemization, and some of the beginnings of industrialization” began to appear, marked the…

The post-Independence, postcolonial narratives work out the constructs of the nation and analyze its text The dis¬courses or narratives written then and later address the issues of the 'new' nation-mapping of territorial spaces, the re¬grouping of communities, peoples, cultures, languages into a homogenous identity of being Indian and belonging to India. Within this text of national identity runs the sub-text of centrality and marginality. The schemes of the nation include or exclude people,…

Drawing on at least 3 set of readings that have been covered in this section of the course, explain how social power has been understood. There have been many different theories on social power and where that power comes from. The ideologies around social power have sparked many interesting thoughts over the years and have brought together many aspirations between classes in our society. According to Webber ‘social power is the ability to achieve goals even if other people oppose those goals.…