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| Michel Foucault On 'Disciplinary Society,' Part 1 |
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In 1983, Foucault's responded (in audio format) to
questions about arguably his most influential
work, "Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the
Prison" (1977)... specifically, the focus was the
orgin of the prison system as it relates to the
emergence of what he termed - 'disciplinary
society.' The 18th century prisons, he contends,
were based upon 17th century disciplinary
institutions - mainly, schools and the army. Their
social arrangement became the basis for diffused
societal regimentation - Bentham's panopticon, was
the theoretical model - a centralized observation
device in which the disciplinarian observes the
disciplinee - but not vice-versa ...
The first 4 images are from DP:
1. The book's cover
2. A close-up of the cover
3. An alcoholism lecture at Fresnes prison
4. 'Plan of the Panopticon,' by Bentham, 1843
5. Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)
Tags : Michel+Foucault Discipline+and+Punish Prison French+Philosophy Postmodernism Bentham Panopticon |
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Affichage : 52711
Durée : 299 s |
| Michel Foucault On 'Disciplinary Society,' Part 2 |
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Here, Foucault argues that the prison is one facet
in the overall 'rationality' structuring
disciplinary society - questions raised regard
methods used to coerce persons to behave in
certain, predictable ways and the best means to
achieve this end ...
Foucault offers this observation near the
conclusion of DP:
"The judges of normality are present everywhere.
We are in the society of the teacher-judge, the
doctor-judge, the educator-judge, the
'social-worker'-judge; it is on them that the
universal reign of the normative is based; and
each individual, wherever he may find himself,
subjects to it his body, his gestures, his
behavior, his aptitudes, his achievements" (p.
304)."
The images:
1. Plan for a Penitentiary, 1840 - prisoner
kneeling before an observation tower
2. Interior of the Statesville Penitentiary,
Joliet, IL
3. Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia, PA
4. Texas Death Row prisoner, 1994
Tags : Michel+Foucault Discipline+and+Punish French+Philosophy Postmodernism Panopticon Prison |
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Affichage : 22649
Durée : 241 s |
| Michel Foucault On 'Pleasure Vs. Desire' |
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In this 1983 audio clip, Foucault responds to
questions about his last project - the
multi-volume "History of Sexuality" (three of a
planned six were published) ... here, he discusses
the shift from the ancient, Greco-Roman sexual
ethic that involved 'pleasure' as the primary
motif, to the modern (often psychoanalytic) notion
of 'desire' which became the modern 'key' to
unpacking the 'essence' of the 'human being' ...
In the HOS, Foucault traces the historical
genealogy of this transformation and in the first
volume offers critiques of what he regards as a
precarious, entrapping construct - 'sex,' he says,
'is the most speculative, most ideal, and most
internal element in a deployment of sexuality
organized by power in its grip on bodies and their
materiality, their forces, energies, sensations,
and pleasures.'
Tags : Michel+Foucault History+Of+Sexuality Desire Pleasure Postmodernism French+Philosophy |
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Affichage : 46279
Durée : 247 s |
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