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The paper "Foucault panopticism in Shutter Island" cites Foucault's notion of panopticism as that the materialization of madness in society results in the seclusion of affected individuals.... panopticism is an avenue of achieving power over the conduct of humans and an avenue where the exercise of power takes place.... According to Foucault, achieving control over individuals is one of the fundamental motives in exercising discipline....
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This can also be found in Foucaults, “panopticism” from Discipline & Punishment' (Foucault) where he talks about eighteenth century torture.... Where we see authorities using their power to control and manipulate the lives of the people they rule.... First Name Last Number 4 June 2015 a)....
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This essay "Applying panopticism to the Photograph and the Video" focuses on the French intellectual Michel Foucault who is known for his genealogical works on insanity, sickness, and criminality.... Further, panopticism has been used as the theme of various photo exhibits, no doubt inspired by the creeping feeling of being watched.... The panoptic principle of perpetual visibility as a mechanism of discipline is representative of society's operations....
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Three psychic human beings called precogs have been harnessed and their power to see future crimes projected on computers.... The focus of the paper "Surveillance in the City" is on modern cities and metropolis, surveillance technologies and personnel in order to ensure that their citizens have the required security, security teams and personnel form, ethical, legal and even moral questions....
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The understanding of human development is one of the most debated aspects of modern scholarship and this is mainly because of the differences related to the manner through which human beings have been able to attain their status.... In “Aesthetics and Anaesthetics”, Susan.... ... ... orssattempts to show the destructive manner through which human beings have developed and this to such an extent that they are often willing to become spectators in their own destruction (Buck-Morss 30)....
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This paper 'panopticism and CCTV' is set to discuss the societal impact of cameras.... The paper will discuss the history and development of CCTV cameras and the Panopticon and its principles, and how they relate to CCTV cameras, the contextualization of panopticism in shopping mall designs.... This way, the prisoners uphold values of discipline owing to the innate fear of the surveillance system....
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In this context, a victim of violence can be depicted in a way that propagates stereotyping.... As a result of the highly publicized violent crime between Oscar Pistorius and her girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp on Valentine's Day, this paper focuses on demonstrating how media coverage has reflected and refracted the public's understanding by sensitizing the issue of violence, in this case - intimate partner violence that is addressed through discourse and power/ knowledge....
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The intention is to show how the media represents sexual violence by applying the concept of power and the docile body.... An underlying argument guiding this paper is that the media normalizes the myths of power and the docile body.... Hence, it has been largely depicted by the media as a variant of gender-based violence.... In which case, while the males have the power to use and improve the females, the females are destined to be submissive to power, abuse, and repair....
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