ANT208H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: The Birth Of The Clinic, Panopticon, Knowledge Power
Document Summary
Fashion and identity: governmentality and what not to wear. vis- -vis: What not to wear youtube video clip for class (click on wntw title) Foucault"s work: governmentality & the gaze (surveillance as discipline: relates to his other works of power, knowledge and discourse. Rtv lifestyle show what not to wear (and fashion more broadly) Surveillance: foucault"s theories of surveillance and the gaze . Interested in how the self was viewed in 18-19th century: how changing notions of the body would be accepted by others. Discipline: techniques to enforce obedience, branches to knowledge (rules and methods, knowledge/ power/ discourse. Prevalence and acceptance: we participate in surveillance in our everyday lives, taking pictures and positing it on facebook, are examples of ways of how we participate in gazing and our desire for visualization. Desire to gaze voyeuristic, but not normalized: because it is so prevalent and has become normalized in our society.
