VCC101H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 104-129: Griselda Pollock
25 Jan 2017
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Gaze is constituted through a relationship of subjects defined within and through the discourses of institutions. Modern state and political system are depended on bureaucies and social institutions to function. Foucualt"s concept of discourse: influential theoretical paradigms for thinking about how power works through benign institutional techniques and discourses, help understand how power systems work, foucault"s definition of discourse: A group of statements that provide a means for talking about a particular topic at a particular historical moment. Body of knowledge that both defines and limits whact can be said about something. How we participate in practices of self-regulation in response to systems of surveillance, whether they are in place or simply assumed to be in place. Subject to camera surveillance in our daily lives that we are already accustomed to the idea os surveillance: camera is used as a form of intrusion and policing our behaviors.
