MEAMO, BENJAMIN GEORGE III P. COMM 140 G Public markets are spaces in a community where trade, services, and other activities occur. Vendors, buyers, and even bystanders are the types of people who interact within this public space. Markets act as open areas for activities and daily communicative interaction of people. The interactions between the vendors, buyers, and bystanders result to various products of communication which create transformations. For instance, from a regular trade section of rice dealers to a space for a Catholic mass, the rice section along Magsaysay Avenue, Baguio City, undergone transformation. The transformations are created and recognized by people. These are tactical transformations that correspond to practices separate from the regulations established and implemented within the space. Given this premise, I intend to do a field research as an approach in studying the public market of Baguio City, specifically to look at the activities and actions of people within the space. As a guide in analyzing the communication phenomenon, I will use Michel Foucault’s concept of discipline, power, and Panopticon together with Michel De Certeau’s strategy and tactics. Foucault says that panopticon is “a way of defining power relations in terms of the everyday life of men” (Foucault 1975, 205). Through Michel Foucault’s concept of panopticon, the focus of the study will be the performance of tactics by vendors, buyers, and the bystanders as
Surveillance came about for the purpose of distinguishing people from one another and placing them into groups. It also helped to keep track of population control and keep track of land ownership. Surveillance provides us with knowledge, which helps maintain order and retain implemented rules. Jeremy Bentham designed the Panopticom in the late 18th century. The Panopticom is an architectural figure that enables all of the cells to be viewed from a central tower in a prison setting.
Extensive research was taken to write this novel, and was revealed in the offbeat telling of historical events. Instead of focusing on how capitalism developed in specific countries, Appleby told the story of how it developed over time and globally. She describes the positives and the negatives with equal tact, and makes it interesting for those who usually are not interested in these types of novels. While it may be difficult to understand the connection in some sections, the unique angle is enough to capture almost anyone’s attention. Altogether, the book clearly explains why capitalism is “A relentless revolution, yes, but not a mindless one” (Appleby
The book, “Where Am I Wearing?”, by Kelsey Timmerman tells the journey that Timmerman embarked on to discover where his clothes were made and who made them. He traveled to rare places like Honduras, Bangladesh, Cambodia, and China to talk to the people behind his clothing in an attempt to better understand globalization and to minimize the difference between small-scale and large-scale stories and processes. “Where Am I Wearing?”, connects themes from Geography 2750 such as population dynamics, urbanization, and economics through small-scale stories and puts emphasis on how they affect large-scale processes. In the book, Timmerman helps explain the themes of population dynamics on page 172 of his book.
“They had been honed and trained so thoroughly by that extinguished world that they were doomed in this new one” (Zone One 31). Colson Whitehead 's novel, Zone One, draws attention to the issue of consumer capitalism through a post-apocalyptic plot line. Likewise, Leif Sorensen draws on a similar point by discussing how Zone One feeds into his claim that “the novel’s commitment to closure is driven in part by a sense that repetitive cycles of late-capitalist futurism offer change in name only” (561). In other words, an aspect of consumer society includes a presentation of a new idea, product, or concept that is actually a previous idea rebranded. My essay builds and extends this claim by focusing on an overlooked aspect of the novel, the stragglers
In the novel “The Ladies’ Paradise,” Emile Zola focuses on this rising capitalistic culture, specifically in the form of department stores. Like many features of Paris, the way the cities
Power is fundamental to the usage of public space. Supremacy often determines who will occupy the space, how enjoyable the space will be, and how accessible the space will be to different
Athena Kennedy Philosophy Professor Berendzen Kant vs. Foucault December 1, 2015 Kant vs. Foucault Humans question their surroundings every day, weather it is “is how I am acting the way I want to portray myself,” “am I doing the right thing in this situation?” All questions can and should be debated, In philosophy we find new ways to questions everything, weather it is another’s opinion or our own, we form new ways of thinking critically and new ways to obtain answers that will satisfy our thirst for knowledge. Philosophers believe that you need to be able to question everything because there is always new knowledge out there for us to absorb and to question. In critical thinking you evaluate an issue you believe is present in order
In this essay I will be analysing Bourdieu concepts of field, habitus, social capital, and cultural capital and apply it to three different sources. In order to form part of certain societies one has to achieve a certain status that is describe in this essay which looks at fashion and how Bourdieu ‘s theoretical concepts can be applied to either the London Fashion Week , the secret life of Haute Couture and I’Khothane. I will also be looking at how these things can be combined into each other, how they relate to each other and what are their differences. According to Bourdieu society is like fields.
Ogden begins exploring the people and how they interact with their environment in a particularly anthropological way called “landscape ethnography”. Ogden creates an emphasis on a spatial philosophy concept called the “rhizome” made known by two French philosophers, Deleuze and Guattari. The rhizome is responsible for the way Ogden approaches this research. The book emphasizes the importance of interactions between different variables like humans, non-humans, and
The pursue of distinction through taste covers several fields of preference, such as cultural production and luxury goods. Fashion, as a conspicuous good, represents one of the many areas in which the dominant class exercise its symbolic domination and distinction (Bourdieu, 1984/2010: 312) on the classes’ struggle. The banality of fashion for the upper class is opposed by its rare and inaccessibility for lower levels; as lower classes try to obtain what is fashion, as a sign of distinction among the classes and between class fractions, upper class reaches out for new trends, abandoning the past and trivial ones. In the meanwhile, middle class struggles with its ambiguous position, trying to possess what is considered bourgeois while attempting to distinct itself from the lower
Cultural studies is an academic space of empirically, theoretically and politically engaged cultural analysis coined by British academics during the time period of 1950-1970. The concept has been further analysed and examined by theorists from different areas of expertise around the world. Based on the theorisations of Marxism came about The Birmingham and The Frankfurt school of cultural studies. In the essay I will consider the differences between these two schools in relation to their approaches to culture and audience. In particular I will compare and contrast the works of key theorists such as Adorno and Stuart Hall in relation to their theories of mass culture and audience.
Based on Stuart Hall’s (2006) discussion of Foucault’s theory of discourse, a discourse is generally consisting of a group of statements that together offer a way of talking about a par-ticular knowledge on a certain topic. Many individuals can produce it together, in different institutional settings. The discourse thereby enables the construction of a topic in a specific way which at the same time limits other constructions of the same topic. A discourse is made up not only from one but a multiplicity of statements that all share the same style to talk about the same topic. However, it is not a closed off system, it draws statements from and into other discourses.
Paul- Michel Foucault was a French philosopher also known as a historian of systems of thoughts whose influence extended across a broad array of disciplines especially in the humanities and social sciences and a social critic. He created his own title when he was promoted to professorship at one of the most prestigious colleges in France “College de France” in 1970. He is perhaps best known for his ruminations on power, self identity, epistemology, and the evolution of systems of thought and meaning. He is often described as post-structuralist or post modernist, however Foucault himself rejected such titles, preferring to analyse their significance rather than identifying with them.
This process of recuperation happens in two ways: by converting subcultural signs into mass-produced objects (the commodity form) and by labelling and re-defining deviant behavior by dominant groups (the ideological form). The commodity form benefits from the relationship between the spectacular subcultures and the industries, which is based on ambiguity and the difficulty to distinguish between commercial exploitation and originality, since consumption is an indispensable part of spectacular subcultures and they feed on production and publicity. However, this commercialization and mass production of cultural symbols takes their meaning away from the subculture and makes it available for everyone.
Imagine you are in the forest collecting sticks and twigs in an attempt to create some sort of sturdy object or, pillar that can withstand outside forces trying the break them. A single stick would likely break if you were to grab each end and try to bend it. If you were to add another twig it would take more force to break but, you would still be able to snap the sticks in half. As the analogy goes, the more sticks you add, the harder it becomes to bend and break the bundle. The same type of situation seems to be emphasized in James Scott’s article “Everyday Forms of Resistance”, in which the main idea keeps calling attention to the everyday forms of resistance demonstrated by lower class; the powerless individuals.