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The design that was given , the arranged color patterns , and the chosen colors can be compared aesthetically to Focault 's theory concerning his view regarding Discipline and Punishment . It must be realized that without discipline and punishment according to Focault , society would not function accordingly as it is expected to

Focualt 's view regarding discipline and punishment developed from his observations of the relationships present within the society . In its place , Focault provided an analysis of the colonization of punishment by the disciplines , a family of techniques for exercising power over

individual and assembled bodies with a long history in specialized institutions like the monastery and military camp (Simon , 1996 ,

br 317 ) It is in this case that there occurred a transformation of the concept and evolved into a more formalized institution that caters to discipline and punishment as the years pass . According to Focault their emergence as a more general technology of power was marked by the transformation of punishment at the start of the nineteenth century and especially , the rapid growth of the prison as the state punishment of choice (Simon , 1996 ,

. 317

In Focault 's concept of social control , he emphasized the importance of recognition and awareness of the conflicts that occurs everyday . That is why Focault states that we have a daily `ethico-political ' choice to find what structures of power most threaten the possibility of continued resistance , and to attack those structures (Pickett , 1997 ,

.923 ) In this light , Focault tried to divide this occurrence into two important broad subjects . First , the process of struggle , the actual engagement itself , is an aid to aesthetic self-creation (Pickett , 1997 ,

.923 The second thing is that the result of resistance will (hopefully ) be the amelioration of intolerable conditions (Pickett , 1997 ,

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In response to these , the practical response to this reading of Foucalt is support for a number of political reforms which allow greater space for individuals in their daily lives (Pickett , 1997 ,

.923 ) It is then important to elaborate on the concept of struggle that is seen to be a responsive action to discipline and punishment . Struggle is central to the creation and maintenance of this space reform will not come from above , its impetus must come from below (Pickett , 1997 br

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Also Focault made his view clear regarding social control . `Social control abandoned recourse to spasms of spectacular fury in favor of smooth and continuous process (Simon , 1996 ,

. 317 ) With this being the case , it paved the way for the success of several important facets of society - capitalism and democratic politics . The widespread dispersal of disciplines among social institutions was a crucial ingredient , according to Focault in the takeoff of modern industrial capitalism and democratic politics (Simon , 1996 ,

. 317

In Focault 's work , he focused on three important categories of his study (1 ) Focualt focused for the most part of the last portion of the eighteenth century and the first half of the nineteenth , yet few who read the book...

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