This thesis explores the intricate interplay of fatness and queerness, as navigated by Greek individuals. Employing a qualitative approach and thematic analysis, the study aims to unfold the experiences, challenges, and resilience. To do so it is informed by queer theory, as well as Michel Foucault’s concept of the Panopticon and Judith Butler’s concept of performativity. Ethical considerations, the application of queer phenomenology, and an awareness of positionality guide the study to ensure a compassionate and empathetic examination of these experiences. The findings reveal the pervasive societal narratives on fatness and queerness and the significant role of self-identification, aiming to contribute to the broader discourse on body image, self-identity, and societal expectations.

This thesis focuses on how the recently implemented automated speed enforcement (ASE) program in the City of Toronto functions as a tool of social control. Using a governmentality lens, it investigates the linkages between techniques for regulating conduct and the rationalities that justify and push citizens into modifying and constructing themselves. The central research question guiding this project is: How does automated speed enforcement (ASE) function as a mechanism of social control? The research conducted to investigate this question was divided into two stages. Phase 1 involved examining information from publicly available open datasets from the City of Toronto, the Toronto Police Service, and Ontario's Open Data Catalogue pertaining to ASE. The findings from this phase pointed to differing traffic reporting standards between stakeholders, discrepancies between the publicly stated priorities that are meant to inform the selection of locations at which ASE is installed and the location of 24 current ASE sites in the city, and gaps in ASE related information to which members of the public currently have access. Phase 2 involved conducting key informant interviewees with representatives from the City of Toronto, City Councillors, and representatives of the Ontario Ministry of Transportation. These interviews revealed that there exist informal and formalized data sharing practices among road safety stakeholders, and that despite the existence of publicly available site selection criteria ambiguities persist regarding how locations for ASE installations actually are selected. Equally noteworthy, the interviews exposed contrasting perceptions about the extent to which monetary considerations inform the deployment and use of ASE. By examining the assemblages of tools, processes, and practices comprising the City of Toronto's ASE infrastructure, this thesis sheds light on how the latter work together to regulate, shape, and function as a post-panopticon tool of social control in the City of Toronto.This thesis focuses on how the recently implemented automated speed enforcement (ASE) program in the City of Toronto functions as a tool of social control. Using a governmentality lens, it investigates the linkages between techniques for regulating conduct and the rationalities that justify and push citizens into modifying and constructing themselves. The central research question guiding this project is: How does automated speed enforcement (ASE) function as a mechanism of social control? The research conducted to investigate this question was divided into two stages. Phase 1 involved examining information from publicly available open datasets from the City of Toronto, the Toronto Police Service, and Ontario's Open Data Catalogue pertaining to ASE. The findings from this phase pointed to differing traffic reporting standards between stakeholders, discrepancies between the publicly stated priorities that are meant to inform the selection of locations at which ASE is installed and the location of 24 current ASE sites in the city, and gaps in ASE related information to which members of the public currently have access. Phase 2 involved conducting key informant interviewees with representatives from the City of Toronto, City Councillors, and representatives of the Ontario Ministry of Transportation. These interviews revealed that there exist informal and formalized data sharing practices among road safety stakeholders, and that despite the existence of publicly available site selection criteria ambiguities persist regarding how locations for ASE installations actually are selected. Equally noteworthy, the interviews exposed contrasting perceptions about the extent to which monetary considerations inform the deployment and use of ASE. By examining the assemblages of tools, processes, and practices comprising the City of Toronto's ASE infrastructure, this thesis sheds light on how the latter work together to regulate, shape, and function as a post-panopticon tool of social control in the City of Toronto.

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Abstract ALWAYS ALREADY IMPRISONED: THE PANOPTIC POWER OF CAPITALISM IN AMERICAN LITERATURE, 1900-1940 By Andrew Blair Spencer, Ph.D. A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Virginia Commonwealth University. Virginia Commonwealth University, 2019 Director: Dr. Richard Fine, Professor, Department of English By applying the theories of control that Michel Foucault outlines in Discipline and Punish to the capitalist system, I argue that capitalism functions in much the same was as Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon in that it perpetually imprisons individuals who live under its purview. As I see it, capitalism works on two different tracks to exploit the human condition in order to keep those living under its purview perpetually trapped within an endless cycle of working to acquire commodities, both for our personal survival and our personal indulgence. Advertising assumes the role of Foucauldian discourse in this model. In the United States, advertising became a commercial force in the mid-nineteenth century; by the beginning of the twentieth century, it was a fully-fledged profession that worked to fuel the bourgeoning commercial culture that was beginning to manifest itself in all areas of American life. By creating needs and desires in the minds of consumers, advertisers were able to dictate consumer behavior, thereby further locking Americans into the capitalist Panopticon. This theoretical base becomes the foundation upon which I build my explication of fourteen representative American novels written during the period 1900-1940. I offer in-depth discussions of individual novels, paying particular attention to the ways in which authors interrogate the capitalist system in light of the image of the United States as a land of opportunity. The selection of works includes both male and female authors, as well as white and African-American writers. Characters range from very poor to exorbitantly wealthy, and include multiple examples of middle-class life, too; the collection of works I have chosen includes both native-born and immigrant populations, as well. This wide range of socio-economic backgrounds, races, and nationalities provides a comprehensive picture of how all-encompassing the capitalist Panopticon is in American society.

<p>The main aim with this essay is to look how Dorothy Parker portrays women who drink. My main focus is at Dorothy Parker’s story “Big Blonde” but also her stories, “Dialogue at Three in the Morning”, “A Terrible Day Tomorrow”, “Just a Little One” and “A Woman in Green Lace”. Inspired by Ellen Lansky, who points out that Panopticon and Panopticism can be applied on all-male institutions and men, my analysis proves that Foucault’s Panopticism can be used to describe masculine control of female drunkenness. Women behave in a certain way to please inspectors in the Panopticon. I this essay I argue that there are two types of drinking women in Parker’s stories. The “modern” and the “controlled” woman, who both are forced to submission by Panopticism.</p>

Ce travail a pour objet de comprendre les évolutions majeures de la pratique théâtrale au XVIIIe siècle,à travers l’analyse de sources manuscrites inédites du Comédien-Français Henri-Louis LeKain. Figureauto-constituée de « souverain des planches », LeKain n’a eut de cesse de vouloir réformer les modesde production et de fabrication théâtrales de son temps. En quoi le rapport de force qu’il instaure avectoutes les instances de décision et de pouvoir de la Comédie éclaire-t-il justement les mutations encours ? Quelles sont ses revendications ? Comment et pourquoi émergent-elles dans le champ théâtralde l’époque ? Quelles sont les stratégies mises en place par LeKain pour parvenir à ses fins ? En quoiconsiste cette tentative de prise de pouvoir sur l’ensemble du champ théâtral ? Pourquoi et commentcette va-t-elle esthétiquement et politiquement marquer les modes de gouvernance de la scène enFrance ? Le Registre et tout l’appareil écrit qui l’entoure et l’accompagne, procèdent autant, voiremoins, d’une tentative de fixer la « mise en scène » des tragédies retenues par le comédien que d’unevolonté d’arriver à la définition d’un Théâtre idéal dont LeKain se donne pour être tout à la fois leconcepteur et le dépositaire exclusif. En cherchant à se placer au centre d’un dispositif de productiondont il entend surveiller tous les aspects – artistiques, politiques, économiques, moraux – LeKaindéfinit les contours d’un système de contrôle très proche du système panoptique définit par Foucaultdans Surveiller et Punir. / The aim of this study is to understand the major changes in theatrical practice in the 18th century,through an analysis of unpublished manuscript sources, written by the French actor Henri-LouisLeKain. Self-appointed « king of the boards », LeKain never ceased in his striving to update anddevelop the practice of theatrical production and presentation. To what extent does the power-strugglehe initiated with the decision makers at the the Comédie-Française, throw light on the changes takingplace ? What were his demands ? How did they emerge in the theatrical world of the time, and why ?What strategies did LeKain pursue to achieve his goals ? What did this attempt to seize power consistof in the wider field of theatre ? And how does it affect the governance of French theatrical productionin the widest political and aesthetic sense ? The Registre and all surrounding and accompanyingwritten material arise from LeKain’s desire to arrive at a definition of a theatrical ideal, of which heconsidered himself both the originator and sole repository, and to a lesser extent, from an attempt toformalise the production of the tragedies that he had commissioned.By attempting to place himself at the heart of an apparatus of production such that he could watchover every aspect – artistic, political, economic and moral – LeKain defined the outlines of a system ofcontrol very similar to the panoptic gaze defined by Foucault in Surveiller et Punir.

The main aim with this essay is to look how Dorothy Parker portrays women who drink. My main focus is at Dorothy Parker’s story “Big Blonde” but also her stories, “Dialogue at Three in the Morning”, “A Terrible Day Tomorrow”, “Just a Little One” and “A Woman in Green Lace”. Inspired by Ellen Lansky, who points out that Panopticon and Panopticism can be applied on all-male institutions and men, my analysis proves that Foucault’s Panopticism can be used to describe masculine control of female drunkenness. Women behave in a certain way to please inspectors in the Panopticon. I this essay I argue that there are two types of drinking women in Parker’s stories. The “modern” and the “controlled” woman, who both are forced to submission by Panopticism.

Submitted by Elesbão Santiago Neto (neto10uepb@cche.uepb.edu.br) on 2018-04-17T17:34:39Z No. of bitstreams: 1 PDF - Pedro Henrique Oliveira Frazão.pdf: 48458154 bytes, checksum: bfeab5c13f03bd3b57617d633439cb1e (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-04-17T17:34:39Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 PDF - Pedro Henrique Oliveira Frazão.pdf: 48458154 bytes, checksum: bfeab5c13f03bd3b57617d633439cb1e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2016-05-19 / CAPES / The increasing use of cyberspace in International Relations is providing a new scenario for world politics. The evolution of digital media has provided a data flow never before seen in human history, which eventually expanded the role of information as a bargaining chip in the power relations of the current international scenario. One of the changes observed from this process was the strengthening of surveillance – which gains new tools in the cyber environment – as a mechanism of monitoring, law enforcement, control and acquisition of information that makes international actors relevant in the new cyberpower relations. Thus, this dissertation analyzes this phenomenon from two main lines that complement each other: the evolution of surveillance as a key dimension of (cyber)security through a panoptic and post-panoptic approach and how these perspectives influence the current cyber surveillance phenomena. To do so, we present Foucault's studies of disciplinary society and its developments that have given rise to an information society of control, and Bauman’s analysis on liquid modernity and how its characteristics can influence contemporary surveillance. The second line of analysis, drawn from the data collected so far, deals with a vision of cyber surveillance as a tool of cyberspace securitization process. Following this logic, studies of the Copenhagen School, based on the constructivist theory of International Relations, point out a favorable path to understanding the role of cyber surveillance within the cybersecurity issues. As an example case, we examine how this process took place within NSA programs of global surveillance revealed in mid-2013 by Edward Snowden. In order to achieve these objectives, classical authors of surveillance and security studies will be reviewed, as well as new approaches; for the presentation and analysis of the proposed case, documentary analysis, reports and speeches relating to international responses in the face of revelations of the NSA programs will be used. / O crescente uso do ciberespaço nas Relações Internacionais vem propiciando um novo cenário para a política mundial. A evolução dos meios digitais proporcionou um fluxo de dados nunca antes visto na história da humanidade, o que acabou ampliando o papel da informação enquanto moeda de troca nas relações de poder do cenário internacional atual. Uma das transformações observadas a partir deste processo foi o fortalecimento da vigilância – que ganha novas ferramentas no ambiente cibernético – enquanto mecanismo de monitoramento, manutenção da ordem, controle e aquisição de informações que tornem os atores internacionais relevantes nas novas relações de poder cibernéticas. Sendo assim, a presente dissertação analisa este fenômeno a partir de duas linhas principais que se complementam: a evolução da vigilância enquanto dimensão-chave da (ciber)segurança, através de uma abordagem panóptica e pós-panóptica e como estas perspectivas influenciam nos fenômenos atuais de vigilância cibernética. Para tanto, apresentam-se os estudos de Foucault acerca da sociedade disciplinar e os seus desdobramentos que deram lugar a uma sociedade de controle informacional, e as análises de Bauman sobre a modernidade líquida e como tais características podem influenciar a vigilância contemporânea. A segunda linha de análise, elaborada a partir dos dados levantados até então, aborda uma visão da vigilância cibernética enquanto ferramenta do processo de securitização do ciberespaço. Seguindo esta lógica, os estudos da Escola de Copenhague, baseados na teoria construtivista das Relações Internacionais, apontam um caminho propício para a compreensão do papel da vigilância cibernética dentro das questões de cibersegurança. Como exemplo de caso, examina-se como esse processo se deu dentro dos programas de vigilância global da NSA, revelados em meados de 2013 por Edward Snowden. A fim de alcançar tais objetivos, serão revisados autores clássicos dos estudos de vigilância e segurança, bem como novas abordagens; para a apresentação e análise do caso proposto, serão utilizados análises documentais, reportagens e discursos referentes às respostas internacionais em face das revelações dos programas da NSA.

This thesis looks into the key aspects of surveillance and marketing issues. It describes surveillance as a subject of studies, historical development in studies regarding surveillance and default approaches to the surveillance from the Surveillance Studies branch point of view. Main source of information for the thesis comes from the concept of surveillance from Michael Foucault, Gilles Deleuze, Zygmunt Bauman, David Lyon and other experts. Practical part of the thesis aims to present a balanced look on the marketing as a sphere of surveillance, to describe development of surveillance in marketing and to outline eventual risk and consequences of contemporary surveillance in marketing.

This dissertation approaches the concept of beauty. Looking through the consistent efforts ofphilosophers and artists over the centuries to define and capture beauty, we come to the conclusionthat such a thing is impossible in its entirety. The rules and the standards that measure out thebeautiful. By being something that can be defined and measured, I come to the conclusion thatbeauty and the way we talk about it and recognize it, forms a set of rules that establish a system.This system helps the dominant beholding part of power to maintain its status. Nietzsche, throughhis genealogical method, managed to prove that perhaps the easiest way to define or try tounderstand a concept is to examine how it evolved in various historical contexts. Nietzsche realizedthat distinct historical periods give a variable conceptual results for a certain value. The onesregulating those standards of evaluation, are the relations of power within a society. Foucault,evolving Nietzsche's hypothesis and thought, finds that the respective systems of power are the onessetting the specifics of evaluation that better suit them in order to maintain control. Systemsaccording to Foucault define and set the limits for our actions and thoughts. The respective socialvalue systems set the limits for the beautiful in our case and its definitive characteristics, resultingto a series of variable beauty standards that have been dominant in different historical periods. Themost effective tool of the dominator is the creation of regimes of truth. Regimes of truth arehistorically specific mechanisms that produce discourses which function as true in particular timesand places. These systems of truth are being regulated through narratives. In our time screentechnology has achieved something unprecedented in the communication chronicles of humanity,the possibility of globalized broadcast. The emergence of cinema has managed to influence anddefine the standards of beauty with unprecedented results in pop culture.