WEEK 05: Wednesday 15 November 2006
discourse analysis: visual culture, intertextuality and institutions
Required reading
Cavallaro
pt1 chapter 6 textuality (focus: intertextuality: pp60- )
pt2 chapter 2 subjectivity (focus: foucalt and discourse pp 89-92)
Additional material
Michel Foucault: Panopticism
Source: Foucault, Michel Discipline & Punish: The Birth of the Prison (NY: Vintage Books 1995) pp. 195-228
what is meant by discourse analysis: michel foucault
Surveillance and Society: Foucault issue -Foucault and panopticism revisited
Orwellian projects
ASSIGNMENT FOR WEEK05 SESSION
Post to your blog (before session 05) a summary of Foucault’s essay ‘Panopticism’ (available online> follow link)
During class you will apply your understanding of panopticism to your own lives – you will analyse the panoptic elements of a contemporary institution (eg university campus and/ or public transport ) . Use digital camera throughout the week to document panopticism in daily life and upload photos to your blog along your own writing.
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