Michel Houellebecq

The book, acting in an uncertain world: an essay on technical democracy examines the limits of liberal and deliberative democracies with growing technological society and also proposes solutions for the uncertainties prevailing because of them. Michel Callon, one of the authors is a main scholarly driving force of the book. He is well reputed French Sociologist and friend and colleague of Bruno Latour, but inclined toward more applied and less abstract approach than him. It mainly focuses on the…

Punishment Foucault describes the shift in punishment as “to be enclosed, to be deprived of light and to and to hide.” The Panopticon is meant to keep the prisoner from causing more crime, by letting them think that they will always be watched by the person in the tower found in the center. The cells without the actual bars act like its own personal stage. Foucault mentions that the prisoner is always alone, never communicated with, and always being watched. The side walls are what keeps them…

Human Nature Challenges the idea of the Panopticon What would you do if you thought you were constantly being watched? Would you change how you approached certain situations or would it drive you to do things you never imagined? Throughout the Lord of the Flies, William Golding uses Jeremy Bentham’s design of the Panopticon which is based on Foucault's theory. Bentham states: “The Panopticon was to be a prison that gave the inmates the impression they were being watched at all times” (Bentham)…

The Napoleonic wars refer to the wars of the Napoleonic wars in the period of the Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815). It led to major changes in the military and artillery of Europe, particularly the military system. Because the implementation of the national conscription system, making the war a huge scale, unprecedented. France, the rapid rise of national power, dominated Europe; but after the defeat of the invasion of Russia, the national potential plummeted. Napoleon's empire was eventually…

From the 20th Century Russian Ballet expanded exponentially with the help of advocates such as Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballet Russes. The ballet Russes produced many works Petroukcha is a Russian ballet which is first performed in 1911 choreographed by Michael Fokine. Fokine saw to it that many “key” principles of the classical ballet style abandoned to portray a tormented puppet named Petrouchka. The story takes place at a Russian spring fair in Admirality Square, St Petersburg. The story…

the fact the gaze is internalized. The Panopticon is an intimidating power, the kind which makes people govern themselves in different ways, and stresses the idea that one is constantly being judged, and observed. In Discipline and Punish (1995) Michel Foucault describes discipline as “the specific technique of power”. (P.188,MOCT) In a high school setting, there are disciplinary systems that take place which aims to create the most ideal learning environment so students do not undermine their…

According to Foucault, he explains that the Panopticism is a form of control and power. In the article Panopticism, Foucault says that the ponopticon is the discipline-mechanism, where it is a blockade; an enclosed space that is openly in society and makes power function more efficiently. Those who are put into the panopticon believe others are watching them when in reality no one may be watching them. Those in the Panopticon also are not able to communicate with others and their every move is…

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 the novel 20 00 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, the main characters’ lives are turned upside down and are forced to live under the sea for a total of 20 000 leagues of traveling. Now being in a submarine can be very incredible. But after a couple months, the life of the past can seem to be missing, and being stuck under the sea for that long can start to be a bother. Jules Verne clearly shows the limit to how interesting something, to the day it becomes a pain to sanity. At the…

Panopticism by Michel Foucault states that with the use of architecture and geometry, a ‘Panopticon’ can create in visitors a sense of being watched, making a change to the behavior of an individual subject to observation and leading him to act in a disciplined manner. Bentham’s ‘Panopticon’ is the architectural model of this theory. His ‘Panopticon’ is based on an annular building at the periphery containing cell divisions, with a central tower at the center with two windows that make it able…