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Sexual Science, Subjectivity and National Allegory: Taking Foucault to Postwar JapanMishima Yukio's novel Confessions of a Mask employs the method of the confession in the manner described by Foucault in The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1 in conjunction with discourses making sexuality a matter of national importance and self-surveillance.
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Michel Foucault and "What is an Author?"An analysis of Foucault's famous essay.
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Remembering Michel FoucaultRecollections of a conversation with philosopher/historian Michel Foucault shortly before his death in 1984
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Explaining Foucault's The Order of ThingsIn the Preface to Foucault's The Order of Things, the philosopher lays out his purpose for the book. He argues that there is a constant redefinition of what knowledge constitutes as the standards, culture, and language of the observers evolve. -
Was Michel Foucault Right About Jack Kerouac?Kerouac was considered outsider literature. Does this mean his writings play into Michel Foucault's theories about culture?
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Foucault's Hidden NetworkFoucault speaks of a hidden network which contains the unformed rules of formation which govern the how people define objects of studies, concepts and build theories.
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Book Review: Discipline and Punish by Michel FoucaultIn what has been described as a "ground breaking" book, Michel Foucault discusses in Discipline and Punish the evolution of philosophical approaches to the treatment of criminals inside penal institutions.
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The Rules of Taste: Lispector, Foucault, and BourdieuIn the short story "The Smallest Woman in the World," Bourdieu's ideas of taste and the Foucault's rules of formation are replicated in Lispector's demonstration of language within social boundaries.
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The Modern Carceral Society as Reflected in the Works of Michel FoucaultExploration of our carceral society seen through the works of Michel Foucault
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Michel Foucault: The Panopticon and PanopticismAccording to Michel Foucault, the primary difference between Bentham's Panopticon and the disciplinary mechanism of panopticism is the Panopticon is a physical architectural utopia in which discipline is enforced and panopticism enforces discipline.
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Thoughts on Micheal Foucault's Madness and CivilizationThis essay investigates some themes from Foucault's 'Madness and Civilization' an interpretive history madness in Europe. -
Panopticism: Explaining the Concept Found in Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison by Michel FoucaultIn theory, the Panopticon is a circular building made up of multiple rings of holding cells, one on top of the other. In the center of these rings is a tower, to observe the activity of the prisoners, workers, etc.
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Phaedrus vs. Foucault: Compulsory Heterosexuality and Hegemonic Sexuality in SocietyA major philosophical debate revolves around the power and effectiveness of writing to disseminate knowledge. Philosophers have reviewed the ability of written text to accurately transfer ideas without meaning being lost during the exchange.
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Cultural Studies: Knowledge is PowerFoucault perceived of power as a multi-faceted, multi-dimensional, dynamic phenomenon which, to all intents and purposes, belonged to no one and everyone.
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Practical Criticism of The Great Gatsby: Theoretical Assumptions in FitzgeraldApplication of Marx, Foucault, De Man, and Nietzsche to F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby. -
F is for Fake, Orson Welles Film: A Philosophical DiscussionAn analysis of Welles' "F for Fakes" in light of post-modernism and cognitivism.
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THE INTERPRETER of THINGSBorn in Alessandria, Italy, in 1932, Umberto Eco has been well-known as semiotician, medievalist, philosopher, novelist and essayist. His outstanding novels are The Name of the Rose, Foucault's Pendulum, The Island of the Day Before, and Baudolino.
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Rebellion, Identity, and the Panopticon in The Duchess of MalfiA look at the play, "The Duchess of Malfi" through the lens of Foucault's Panopticon.
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A New Panopticon: An Update to Jeremy Betham's Thought ExperimentAn update to Foucault's Panopticism for our contemporary society.
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Truth and LanguageDerrida and Foucault both discuss the relationship of truth and language.
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Supermodernity in Educational Institutions: What it is and How to Understand ItAn analysis of smart student identification cards in the context of Marc Augé's "Non-Places," Bruno Latour's "Pandora's Hope," and Michael Foucault's "Power/Knowledge." Discusses non-places, the paradoxes of representational schema, and the Panopticon mentality.
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Body Language And Conventional Notions of SexualityIn both of the above works an explanation of the body's cultural inscription reveals how society determines our beliefs regarding sex/gender and why those beliefs are faulty. This analysis re-imagines conventional notions of sexuality.
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It's All Subjective: A Review of Jeffrey Weeks' Book SexualityThis review covers the sociological exploration of Jeffrey Weeks undertaken in his book entitled, "Sexuality." Weeks' premise is that sex and sexuality are both experienced not as universal truths, but as social-historical phenomenon.
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"Johan": To Be Young, Very Handsome, and Gay in Paris in the Summer of 1975"Johan" is is a combination of cinema verité, home movies, and metafiction, with some graphic same-sex sex scenes, augmented by a 2006 bonus return to the project by Phillippe Vallois.
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September 17: Today's Notable BirthdaysIs September 17th your birthday? How will you celebrate this momentous occasion? With what notable individuals do you share your birth date?
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October 15: Today's Notable BirthdaysHappy birthday to Ed McBain, Emeril Lagasse, Penny Marshall, Mario Puzo, Jaci Velasquez, Virgil and others. Is October 15th your birthday? How will you celebrate this momentous occasion? With what notable individuals do you share your birth date? -
The Everyday Gothic of Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen's SatireJane Austen satirized gothic novels in Northanger Abbey. The gothic genre lent authority to Austen's criticisms of patriarchy. Austen pointed out that the real horrors for English women were censorship, self-betrayal, and indifference.
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January 5: Today's Notable BirthdaysHappy birthday: Alvin Ailey, Suzy Amis, Funky Brown, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton, Marilyn Manson, Sam Phillips, George Reeves and others. Is January 5th your birthday? How will you celebrate? What notable individuals share your birthday?
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Lost 316 - Literary References - Season 5The most recent episode Lost, 316, was considerably more revealing and rewarding than any of the other episodes of Season 5 to date. It also was packed with numerous literary references, some glaring and some subtle.
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All About Afrikaans and Their LanguageTells the history of the Afrikaans language.
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Tattoo Culture: The Body as Canvas, Functions of the TattooThe tattoo as a physical object inscribed on the skin exists in an ambiguous position, being both on the surface of the body as well as embedded into the very fiber of the skin.
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Why Art Critic Donald Kuspit Does Not Understand Post-ModernismCritique of Donald Kuspit's misrepresentation of postmodernism in relation to visual art and artists.
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Lost Season 5: The Dharma StationsNow that the remaining survivors appear to be back on the island amongst the Dharma Initiative, it's likely that the Dharma stations will feature heavily in future episodes. Here's what we know about the Dharma stations on the island.
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The Balance of Control in a SocietyCollege paper on the vital balance between rules and freedom in society and how important it is to preserve it.
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Tracing America's Intellectual Traditions from 1877 to the PresentThis paper traces common themes based on the published articles of American intellectuals written at the turn of the twentieth century.
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The Life of Georges BatailleGeorges Bataille will forever be known as the little librarian who read such an enormous quantity of literature while on the job that he turned himself into a full-blown scholar. -
Historical Particularism: Culture and Theory, Part OneHistorical particularism is a theoretical framework that rejects orthogenetic development and stresses the diversity and uniqueness of societies, both past and present. -
Behavior Modification Treatments for Addicts and Their Limitations"At best, behavior modification results in temporary token changes by the criminal." (Samenow, 1984, pp 199, 200)
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Heroes in (Anti) WarThank you to inspriational arbiter of the anti-war movement, Cindy Sheehan. Thankfully since this article was written, Ms. Sheehan has resurrected her political activism.
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Industrial Psychology: The Evolution of a Global Control SystemThe systems of large-group behavioral manipulation and control utilized by authoritarian structures are fundamentally anti-human in intent, practice and effect. "Industrial Psychology" developed alongside modern "correctional" theory during the Industrial Revolution.
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