Michel Foucault

precondition on how to be a professional or as career convict opposed to productive citizens. Unless steps are taken to educate youth if they do not physical die in prison they do so mentally. Placing youth in solitary confinement restricts opportunity for growth and development. Majority of incarnated youth are denied a formal education until release. This put them at a disadvantage because most juvenile offender especially those place with adult population are release before they are twenty…

point perspective, and it’s what the artists want the viewers to see. The arrangement has involvement with hierarchy, and also relates to Foucault and the surveillance system in the Panopticon. This surveillance is based on a system of permanent registration: reports from the syndics to the intendants, from the intendants to the magistrates or mayor (Foucault 2). The syndics are the ones who keep the lowest in check, and let the higher ones know how they’re cooperating. It’s like a chain of…

theorist Michael Foucault. In Foucaultian terminology when sovereignty ended, biopolitics began (Foucault, 142). With biopolitics, human life becomes the target of the organizational and institutional power of the State (Foucault, 143). Foucault expresses that sovereign power was the power to “take life & let live” contrasted to that of biopower in which contained the power to “make live & let die” (Foucault, 143). Agamben expands upon this concept and in some aspects rejects Foucault 's…

Both Douglas and Foucault agree on the idea that social maintenance and organization started with the same boundary of religion. They see religion as a strong institution that shapes categories and boundaries. These categories and boundaries take life of their own and extend their life. Their continuity is a central organizing factor. These extended lives become social institutions. Moreover, they both agree on how society is maintained and organized. Although these powerful forces of social…

themselves according to specific social norms. This offers a valuable paradigm for how societies function and morally regulate individuals as power becomes normalized and instilled into the individual as, “an infestesmal power over the active body” (Foucault, 1977, pp. 137). Panoptic surveillance ultimately produces self-regulation that is inseparable from the body, but paradoxically appears to the individual as a type of freedom to shape conceptions of the self. When considering the fundamental…

In Discipline and Punish, Foucault explains how disciplinary power is used to produce subjects who internalize power and as a result, regulate themselves as their own jailors. Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon model is brought up as a prime example of a form of technological power used in the mid- 19th Century to generate this disciplinary power. The model uses a tower which is placed at the center of a circular prison building. From this tower, the wardens and guards are able to view any prisoner at…

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…

spatial. Looking in opposition, a prison is an extremely standardized space and is not diversified but rather classified with lawbreakers. The surveillance within correctional facilities has different applications to maintain behavioural aspects. Foucault states, “The prison was meant to be an instrument, comparable, with – and no less perfect than the school, the barracks, or the hospital, acting with precision upon its individual subjects. Typically, prisons are functioned with a complex…

ideas, which he called “forms of thinking” ; similar to episteme in Foucault. Forms of thinking, according to Bakhtin, operate with three elements: material, method, and content. These elements would be specification to Foucault’s “machinery of power,” which is the set of institutions that teach people how to behave. These institutions write scripts for thinking rather than just discipline and punish for disobedience. Foucault called those scripts discourses. There’s no escape from discourses,…

Foucault articulates a validation of the oppressed as subject, the “object being,” as Deleuze remarks, “to establish conditions where the prisoners themselves would be able to speak” (Spivak 69). According to the Foucault-Deleuze argument, the subaltern's voice could be accessed directly; if the oppressed are given the chance, they can speak. However, Spivak makes…