HIST 124 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Michel Foucault, Panopticon, Maple Syrup
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Week one- intro: a feminist, a scientist, and an. Bank of canada changed money seven times since 1934. Trudeau instrumental in the passing of the canadian charter of rights and freedoms. Bills put into circulation of 2001-2006, after midst of liberal federal governance. Currency reminds us we live in a capitalist country. Capitalism is like the air we breathe, because we can"t get away from it here . The smell of money, put the smell of maple syrup in primarily hundred dollar bills. Liberalism and capitalism are not even 200 years old. Society bent on observing everything, traced by to the origins of the prison and the panopticon. The history of the present may not be confused with presentism (looking back at the past with our own perspective) big no-no. Makes us take things we have taken for granted liberalism, capitalism, etc. and makes us look at them in a different way.