faucault----Groupe 4, Myles, Audrey, M-A, Alex, Romain
When reading the text of Foucault,
In Docile Bodies, Foucault focuses on the male soldier as being idealistic and puts emphasis on the training and discipline needed in order to master the human body. He shifts from a classical view of the ideal soldier being born a soldier to the image of the peasant becoming a soldier, placing importance on the control over the body over time, as well as the discipline needed. He finally compares these bodies to machines or parts of a greater machine. That human beings can be ordered and organized in a mechanical way in order to establish a strong control over these humans.
In panopticism, he focuses on the idea of a central building from which everything can be viewed, observed, policed and controlled. He gives examples of schools, prisons, hospitals and central administrative facilities order to illustrate the systems that have power. He also states that the more sophisticated a city is, the greater control methods it will have over its citizens and that even if certain rights and freedoms are permitted within that society, they can only be granted by allowing a greater amount of control in order to examine these citizens.
In The means of correct training, two terms(among others) arise more than others: power and discipline. Foucault takes a historical-philosophical analysis of these themes and their impact through time, paying special attention to the impacts of the changes that occurred during the eighteenth century. He believes that disciplinary power can be achieved by using specific tools such as Hierarchical observation, normalizing judgment, and combining them to produce examination.
In the cyborg Manifesto, Haraway tries to illustrate the metaphor that a cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid between a living organism and a machine, mixing social reality and fiction. She elaborates on this metaphor, bluring reality and fiction. She discards the Psycho-analysis that Freudians use, as well as marxian theory for her article. She states that producing universal theories can be a big error and have negative effects on how people will see and interpret these false realities, and that she would prefer to be a cyborg than a goddess.
In Docile Bodies, Foucault focuses on the male soldier as being idealistic and puts emphasis on the training and discipline needed in order to master the human body. He shifts from a classical view of the ideal soldier being born a soldier to the image of the peasant becoming a soldier, placing importance on the control over the body over time, as well as the discipline needed. He finally compares these bodies to machines or parts of a greater machine. That human beings can be ordered and organized in a mechanical way in order to establish a strong control over these humans.
In panopticism, he focuses on the idea of a central building from which everything can be viewed, observed, policed and controlled. He gives examples of schools, prisons, hospitals and central administrative facilities order to illustrate the systems that have power. He also states that the more sophisticated a city is, the greater control methods it will have over its citizens and that even if certain rights and freedoms are permitted within that society, they can only be granted by allowing a greater amount of control in order to examine these citizens.
In The means of correct training, two terms(among others) arise more than others: power and discipline. Foucault takes a historical-philosophical analysis of these themes and their impact through time, paying special attention to the impacts of the changes that occurred during the eighteenth century. He believes that disciplinary power can be achieved by using specific tools such as Hierarchical observation, normalizing judgment, and combining them to produce examination.
In the cyborg Manifesto, Haraway tries to illustrate the metaphor that a cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid between a living organism and a machine, mixing social reality and fiction. She elaborates on this metaphor, bluring reality and fiction. She discards the Psycho-analysis that Freudians use, as well as marxian theory for her article. She states that producing universal theories can be a big error and have negative effects on how people will see and interpret these false realities, and that she would prefer to be a cyborg than a goddess.
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