Week 12 (PRE-FINALS) Flashcards
Refers to the process whereby a particular field or group of fields manages to export its ways of seeing to most or all other fields
Visual Regime
leads to a universalizing of the authority of different forms, genres, medium and practices of the visual to provide access to what we could call “_________”
Visual Reality
Two types of visual reguime
Normalization
Capitalism
associated with the fields of science, bureaucracy and government.
Normalization
part of the economic field
Capitalism
an art historian argues that the advent and development of the set of discourses, ideas, perspectives and practices that we term normalization were tied up with the Foucauldian insight.
Jonathan Crary
populations were and still are seen as potential resources.
Foucauldian Insight
According to Foucault, it refers to the forms of knowledge, techniques, mechanisms and operations that were developed for analyzing, defining, controlling and regulating behavior.
Biopower
referred to a process whereby people’s bodies would be disposed to behave in a manner consistent with what the state and its various institutions considered to be normal, healthy and productive
Being disciplined
Two major stages of disciplinarity and normalizations
Model of Panopticon
Self Surveillance
adjustment of behavior
Model of Panopticon
subjects would be disposed to make themselves the objects of their own gaze, constantly monitoring and evaluating their bodies, actions and feelings.
Self Surveillance
In the modern world, there a lot off pseudo-scientific statistics of normality, regularly advertised in newspaper articles, magazines and television shows, which both remind people of what they have to measure themselves against, and offer the means(better toothpaste, self-help books, exercise equipment, diets, clothes) for achieving and surpassing such norms.
Self Surveillance
Over the years, practices and mechanisms of seeing were changed.
Subjective Vision and Scientific Gaze
According to ________ subjective vision is seen as unreliable and producing falsehood and illusions.
Foucault (1973)
He argues that modern science offers a different explanation scientific rationalism.
Foucault (1973)
He added that “Science will only see through and believe in analysis, evidence and trained
Foucault (1973)
The new scientific knowledge allowed people to see “_______” or at least it claimed to be able to train and discipline the eyes to distinguish truth from illusion
Truly
The increase both in knowledge and the capacity for technology to reveal hidden detail made it easier for social scientists, __________ and _________ to distinguish between and see the normal, the sane and the healthy on the other hand, the ma and the sick on the other
bureaucrats and politicians
