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" Our society is one not of spectacle, but of surveillance; under the surface of images, one invests bodies in depth; behind the great abstraction of exchange, there continues the meticulous, concrete training of useful forces; the circuits of communication... "
About Face: German Physiognomic Thought from Lavater to Auschwitz - Page xli
by Richard T. Gray - 2004 - 453 pages
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Oral History and Delinquency: The Rhetoric of Criminology

James Bennett - Social Science - 1988 - 380 pages
...Foucault, Discipline and Punish, p. 192. 89. Ibid., p. 301. According to Foucault: "Our society is not one of spectacle, but of surveillance; under the surface of images, one invests bodies in depth; behind the great abstraction of exchange, there continues the meticulous, concrete training of useful...
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The Mode of Information: Poststructuralism and Social Context

Mark Poster - History - 1990 - 189 pages
...1928, pp. 32-3.) Foucault sensed that surveillance in the late twentieth century was something new: Our society is one not of spectacle, but of surveillance;...the surface of images, one invests bodies in depth; behind the great abstraction of exchange, there continues the meticulous, concrete training of useful...
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Law and Literature: Text and Theory

Lenora Ledwon - Law and literature - 1996 - 524 pages
...Julius saw as a fulfilled historical process that which Bentham had described as a technical programme. Our society is one not of spectacle, but of surveillance;...the surface of images, one invests bodies in depth; behind the great abstraction of exchange, there continues the meticulous, concrete training of useful...
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Photography, Vision, and the Production of Modern Bodies

Suren Lalvani - Photography - 1996 - 288 pages
...we must be mindful of the fact that by opposing surveillance to the spectacle as Foucault does — "Our society is one not of spectacle, but of surveillance;...under the surface of images, one invests bodies in depth"6 — we devalue the importance of the spectacle and its functioning in modernity. Understanding...
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Feminist Interpretations of Michel Foucault

Susan Hekman - Philosophy - 2010 - 340 pages
...from those limited configurations. In Discipline and Punish Foucault writes, Our society is not one of spectacle, but of surveillance; under the surface of images, one invests bodies in depth; behind the great abstraction of exchange, there continues the mericulous, concrete training of useful...
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Living Ethically, Acting Politically

Melissa A. Orlie - Philosophy - 1997 - 252 pages
...whose object and end are not the relations of sovereignty but the relations of discipline (DP, 208). Our society is one not of spectacle, but of surveillance;...the surface of images, one invests bodies in depth; behind the great abstraction of exchange, there continues the meticulous, concrete training of useful...
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October: The Second Decade, 1986-1996

Rosalind E. Krauss - Art - 1997 - 492 pages
...Michel Foucault's famous dismissal of the spectacle in Discipline and Punish: "Our society is not one of spectacle, but of surveillance; under the surface of images one invests bodies in depth."16 But the spectacle is also a set of techniques for the management of bodies, the management...
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Masken des Lebens - Gesichter des Todes: zum Verhältnis von Tod und ...

Bettina Matthias - Death in literature - 1999 - 204 pages
...durch Begriffe zu disziplinieren, das 'Material Mensch' zu binden, wie es Michel Foucault analysiert: Our society is one not of spectacle, but of surveillance;...the surface of images, one invests bodies in depth; behind the great abstraction of exchange, there continues the meticulous, concrete training of useful...
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Visual Culture: The Reader

Jessica Evans, Stuart Hall - Art - 1999 - 544 pages
...Julius saw as a fulfilled historical process that which Bentham had described as a technical programme. Our society is one not of spectacle, but of surveillance;...the surface of images, one invests bodies in depth; behind the great abstraction of exchange, there continues the meticulous, concrete training of useful...
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Organizational Studies: Critical Perspectives on Business and ..., Volume 1

Warwick Organizational Behaviour Staff - Business & Economics - 2001 - 564 pages
...Julius saw as a fulfilled historical process that which Bentham had described as a technical programme. Our society is one not of spectacle, but of surveillance;...the surface of images, one invests bodies in depth; behind the great abstraction of exchange, there continues the meticulous, concrete training of useful...
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