Foucaults Discipline and Punish: The birth of the prison Essay

Foucault is best remembered for his historical inquiries into the origins of corrective society in a period extending from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Today, however, beneath the conditions of global advancedity, the relevance of his contribution is often called into question. With the increasing ubiquity of markets, the meliorate up of centralized states and the dissolution of national boundaries, the world today seems re bleedd removed from the bounded, disciplinary societies Foucault described in his most famous books. faraway from disciplinary, society today is post panoptic, as Nancy Fraser has argued in a move which seems to confirm Jean Baudrillards demand that we forget Foucault.In effect to answer the question, how Foucaults theory of the disciplinary society can be used to understand the body in the society, I would like to draw this essay by returning to Foucaults book Discipline and punish The birth of the prison.This book deals with the disciplinary institu tions and practices that emerged in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. time discipline and punish is concerned with the birth of the prison in modern Europe, it has far wider implications for the everyday lives of ordinary citizens. Notions such as micro-power, disciplinary institutions, panopticism and prescriptive judgements. Foucault developed this material through the research methods he called archaeology and genealogy. some(prenominal) methods work to uncover the straggling formations and practices of different historical periods, but genealogy has a greater focus on questions of power, and the ways in which discursive power works on bodies. Power shows itself on a bailiwicks body because various events or happenings are written on the human body- they shape th... ...n prison model disposed people to supervise themselves and others regarding the appropriateness or otherwise types of behaviour and body shape.Bibliography-Chancer and Watkins. sex, Race and Class. A n Overview. (Blackwell Publishing)Toni Lester. sex Nonconformity, Race and Sexuality. Charting the Connections. (The University of Wisconsin Press)Teresa de Lauretis. Technologies of Gender Essays on Theory, Film and Fiction (Palgrave Publication)Kennan Malik. The Meaning of race. (Palgrave Publication)Anne Cranny-Francis, Wendy Waring, Pam Stavropoulos, Joan Kirkby. Gender Studies. Terms and Debates. (Palgrave Publication) Penelope Ingram. The Signifying Body. (State University of New York Press)Mark Gibson. Culture and Power. (Berg Publication,New York)Colin Burnham. Race. B.T.Batsford LTD. London.