SPACE POWER FOUCAULT SYNOPSIS This paper is concerned with the built and urban environment as a response, creation and a mechanism of ‘Power-Knowledge’ from Michel Foucault’s theoretical framework. The term ‘Power-Knowledge’ refers to the power structures established in society through the creation, maintenance and 1] Spaces and Classes: One of Foucault’s major tasks in BC is to show that the question ‘Where does it hurt’, which we take as given standard medical procedure of diagnosing the diseased body, is actually part of an interpretive grid of medical perception that is contingently constituted and quite recent. Space, unlike time, Foucault argues, has yet to complete its process of secularization, and sanctity still plays an important part in the way we divide space. The work of Michel Foucault has recently been subjected to considerable scrutiny. The subject of analysis is Foucault’s identification of the role of space in generation of scientific knowledge THE BIRTH OF THE CLINIC. Yet these analyses, while fundamental for reflection in our time, primarily concern internal space. FOUCAULT AND SPACE Summary: This work presents summarized analyses of Foucault’s understanding of spa-ce, noted by West-Pavlov and Zieleniec, and provides further elaboration. Michel Foucault - Summary of important ideas Perhaps the most recognizable figure associated with postmodern thought is Michel Foucault (1937–1984) . Originally published … A summary of Part Four, Chapter 4 in Michel Foucault's The History of Sexuality: An Introduction, Volume 1. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of The History of Sexuality: An Introduction, Volume 1 and what it means. Summary of Michel Foucault’s “Heterotopia” Posted on June 13, 2015 June 13, 2015 by aacd Originally written in French and known as “Des Espaces Autres”, translated into “Heterotopia” starts with looking into the historical development of space perception beginning in the middles ages from Galileo to the modern emplacement. My purpose below is to outline in turn what Foucault understands by the three spatializations, and my only qualification before embarking on this task is to indicate that his time-space coordinates here are Foucault recognized the ‘’great confinement’’; it was stigmatized in the eyes of the public, including the undesired elements of society, including the poor, illegal and so-called insane. from below of mud; or again a space that can be flowing like sparkling water, or space that is fixed, congealed, like stone or crystal. This paper is an examination of his book, Discipline and Punish, which describes an historical transformation in the exercise of power.The themes (section 2) and the significance (section 3) of the book are discussed in terms of Foucault's conception of history and power. Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias Michel Foucault As is well known, the great and obsessive dread of the nineteenth century was history, with its themes of development and stagnation, crisis and cycle, the accumulation of the past, the surplus of the dead and the world threatened by cooling. We still divide to inner form the outer, the internal from the external and assign different meanings to different types of spaces depending on their mutual relations. Mental patients, criminals and even animals have been treated differently for hundreds of years, but our understanding of the mind eventually develops as we will see in this summary.