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Michel Foucault (1926–1984) was a French philosopher, historian, and social theorist, widely known for his critical studies of institutions, knowledge, power, and discourse. His work continues to influence disciplines like philosophy, sociology, history, cultural studies, gender studies, and political science.
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Born: October 15, 1926, in Poi
Generally speaking, all the authorities exercising individual control function according to a double mode; that of binary division and branding (mad/sane; dangerous/harmless; normal/abnormal); and that of coercive assignment of differential distribution (who he is; where he must be; how he is to be characterized; how he is to be recognized; how a c
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Discipline & Punish - Panopticism – Michel Foucault, Info.
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In his late writings, Michel Foucault examined classical Roman biographies to probe how individual subjects came to be formed not only through relationships of power and knowledge (or power/knowledge) but also co-constituted themselves through intentional practices as ethical subjects.3
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In the 1970s, Michel Foucault observed that the principle of Bentham’s Panopticon was one of the foundational mechanisms of the modern state. In Power, he wrote that Panopticonism is “a type of power that is applied to individuals in the form of continuous individual supervision, in the form of control, punishment, and compensation, and in the form
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