Michel Foucault

The Park, taken by the artist Yoshiyuki showing an act of sexual intercourse between a man and a woman reveals the act of love and sexuality during nights at secret places in the parks of big city Tokyo. The artist’s work is an indicative of sexual relationships in solitude as a dire need of a…

The immediacy and horror of the plight of subaltern women is present in the works of Mahasweta Devi, and particularly in her play Bayen. Devi’s dramatic writing largely deals with subaltern characters, and her plays have been performed in rural and tribal areas. Devi’s grassroots political theatre is one of the first performance-based movements within…

            The design that was given, the arranged color patterns, and the chosen colors can be compared aesthetically to Focault’s theory concerning his view regarding Discipline and Punishment. It must be realized that without discipline and punishment according to Focault, society would not function accordingly as it is expected to.             Focualt’s view regarding discipline…

15The economy of powerI would like to suggest another way to go furthertowards a new economy of power relations, a waywhich is more empirical, more directly related to ourpresent situation, and which implies more relationsbetween theory and practice. Michel Foucault, 1982Beyond the repressive hypothesis: Power as power/knowledgeFoucault never attempts any (impossible) definition of power. At…

This week’s readings had the themes of sexuality and racial discrimination. These themes are displayed in “The Story of Sexuality” by Michel Foucault and “Abbreviation in Black” by Roderick Ferguson. Foucault brings up the discussion of sexuality and its contemplation in the west since the seventeenth century. Confessions of sex in the eighteenth century became…

To be completely honest, I had never heard of the terms biopower or biopolitics in my life, until reading Michael Foucault and your class. It is something that grabbed my attention specifically, and as I get older it gets easier to recognize how and why the government tries to control us. The cool thing about…

A panopticon is a well-designed circular building in which is always under complete surveillance, allowing the observer to see everyone within the perimeters while people are not able see or acknowledge them back. Michel Foucault mentions in his essay entitled “Panopticism” that there is a common resemblance to this 17th century structure, to many different,…

Introduction Although Michael Foucault is highly respected as a philosopher, Camus is routinely eliminated from prominent discussions of last century’s philosophical developments. In William Barrett’s Irrational Man, for example, Camus is mentioned only once, in passing, on page eight; and in Vincent Descombes’ noted commentary Modern French Philosophy, Camus is not mentioned at all. Yet,…