Postmodernism
In reviewing Foucault’s Discipline and Punish we gain a better understanding of his interest in how the discourse of science pertains to order. Understanding panopticism or the theory that if you know you are being watched then you mostly likely would behave, Foucault’s idea was that we would internalize the pressures of big brother watching us therefore we would regulate ourselves through the power of relations. In addition, through the power of relations, we understand how disciplines such as criminology, sociology, psychology, etc., regulate us. From a judge who passes down a sentence to a criminal for evaluation by a psychologist to the sociologist to a criminologist – we gain a better understanding of how these disciplines maintain social order.
Jean Baudrillard’s simulacrum denotes representation but still carries a sense of counterfeit or falseness. It is a copy of a copy. Simulacra has real references but are only a pretend representation, marking the absence and not the existence of the object is represents. The Disney clip in class showing the dancers on Main Street supports this theory. By bringing nostalgia to the park goers of a time that never really existed serves a world of today for these people because our forward thinking is always working backwards.
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