Michel Foucault

reading both “Foucault and the Disciplinary Society” By Riki Wilchins and “The History of Sexuality” by Michel Foucault the concept of discursive power stood out to me as an important concept. Foucault describe discursive power as the “account for the fact that it is spoken about, to discover who does the speaking, the positions and viewpoints from which they speak, the institutions which prompt people to speak about it and which store and distribute the things that are said”(Foucault, pg.11).…

historically by Michel Foucault and dissected, asking why they are the way they are, what station they occupy in our society and how this affects those of us who live within this civilization. Foucault leads us on a journey fraught with insights to the mystery, terrors and trials of the treatment of madness and how this acts as a kind of case study for the general perspective and health of Western society. It is in the spirit of finding the root cause of our treatment of the madman that…

Michel Foucault’s Panoptisicm lays out the design of a prison to convey absolute authority. Foucault writes, “He is seen, but he does not see; he is the object of information, never a subject in communication” (Foucault, 200). Foucault employs this design to induce in the prisoner a sense of fear, assuring the automatic functioning of proper behavior. However, does this…

To be honest, I had no ideas about how to start and what can I say in my essay when I received WA#2 sheet, mainly because Michel Foucault was talking about prison and its history, things that I am not familiar with. Writing something unfamiliar will be a hard work for me, so I decided to relate the idea of Michel Foucault to my life. The first thing came up to my minds when I think about discipline and punishment was Student code of Conduct, a written “law” dominated my whole high school…

centuries, discourse regarding sex has significantly increased. This has led to the formation of an entire “sexual mosaic.” Michel Foucault contends, throughout the chapter, that the science of sex was essentially made up of evasions; a will to ignorance. The proliferating dialogue in respect to sex, in actuality, served as a way to conceal sex rather than to expose its truths. Foucault delves even further into the types of discourse on sex that was used, specifically, during the nineteenth…

functioning of a certain flow, and if something changes society is “forced” to adjust to that change. When we adjust to order and change everything about us change especially bodily behavior. Michel Foucault theory of discipline and punishment, and the structure of the Panopticon definitely supports this claim. In Foucault theory, he believes that strict rules and punishment has a big impact on how institutions such as prisons, schools, and hospital systems are ran. Institutional power started…

the government always tries to maintain power of its citizens to make sure nobody is doing anything that would harm the state. This idea of power of authority is shown in these three works, The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood, Panopticism by Michel Foucault and “Goblin Market” by Christina Rossetti. In The Handmaid’s Tale it was the constant fear of being watched by the Eye and the masters, being viewed by a person standing in a watchtower from Panopticism, or even…

completely care free, opinions of others or how they might look at me never crossed my mind. But the older we get, conforming to the rules became the norm, a drastic change occurred as a yearning for acceptance grew. In the articles by Bordo, Appiah and Foucault, readers can see a range of views presented as they elaborate further into the topic of identity. The debate between internal and external forces is examined in detail as the audience experiences the polar spectrum of their logic and the…

Panopticism by Michel Foucault depicts how power is circulated to control society and anticipate confusion. He portrays how the vicinity of power can control individuals and look after request. One group that was administered by control to keep up request was the sickness stricken-town of the seventeenth century. The objective of this town was to free themselves of the sickness. One of the first things that happened in this circumstance was that the force was circulated. The town was separated…

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…