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A primary reason [citation needed] for a revival of interest in Kantorowicz's work in the post-WWII era was the use of the work by Michel Foucault in his classic Discipline and Punish, where he drew a parallel between the duality of the king and the body of a man condemned. [13]
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (French: Surveiller et punir : Naissance de la prison) is a 1975 book by French philosopher Michel Foucault.It is an analysis of the social and theoretical mechanisms behind the changes that occurred in Western penal systems during the modern age based on historical documents from France.
Foucault's analysis of the body is frequently cited in queer and feminist theory, which hold the othering of queer or female bodies as a cornerstone of many different types of social disenfranchisement. Interpretations include views of the female body as socially, culturally, and legally defined in terms of its sexual availability to men. [18]
Instead, Foucault argues, the body has been and is continuously shaped by society and history—by work, diet, body ideals, exercise, medical interventions, etc. Foucault presents no "theory" of the body, but does write about it in Discipline and Punish as well as in The History of Sexuality. Foucault was critical of all purely biological ...
The Condemned is a 2007 action film written and directed by Scott Wiper. The film stars Steve Austin , Vinnie Jones , Robert Mammone , Tory Mussett , Madeleine West and Rick Hoffman . The film centers on ten convicts who are forced to fight each other to the death as part of an illegal game which is being broadcast to the public.
Foucault first used the phrase "carceral archipelago" to describe the penal institution at Mettray, France.Foucault said that Mettray was the "most famous of a whole series of institutions which, well beyond the frontiers of criminal law, constituted what one might call the carceral archipelago."
[18] [19] Foucault asserted two concepts essential to embodiment theory: 1) that the body was a malleable and manipulable entity that was relatively unformed, and 2) that the body was shaped by power exercised upon it within a particular historical context. This established a basis through which mechanisms of power and political history could ...
The Condemned (German: Totstellen – Der Sohn eines Landarbeiters wird Bauarbeiter und baut sich ein Haus) is a 1975 Austrian-West German drama film directed by Axel Corti. It was entered into the 9th Moscow International Film Festival .