Foucault, Michel (1926–1984) Reference library
Mary C. Rawlinson
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (2 ed.)
...every other objectivity, it is subject to the apparatuses of power-knowledge. In fact, this understanding of the work of art as an effect of power-knowledge is suggested even in Foucault’s early work. Nearly every work begins and develops from an emblematic image: the stultifera navis or ship of fools in Madness and Civilization , the scene of the dissecting table in The Birth of the Clinic , or the panopticon in Discipline and Punish . In each case the image provides a summative expression of the “apparatus” or system of power-knowledge that produced...
Structuralism Reference library
Stuart Sim
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (2 ed.)
...posited the existence of large-scale institutional structures within an ideology that worked to control the thought and behavior of individual human beings (thus functioning like the deep structure of ideology). These structures were Ideological State Apparatuses (ISAs for short) and the Repressive State Apparatus (RSA). The former category included such phenomena as the legal and educational systems and the media, while the latter comprised the government, police, and army. Collectively, these entities worked to prevent the questioning of the dominant...
Structuralism Reference library
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
...posited the existence of large-scale institutional structures within an ideology that worked to control the thought and behavior of individual human beings (thus functioning like the deep structure of ideology). These structures were Ideological State Apparatuses (ISAs for short) and the Repressive State Apparatus (RSA). The former category included such phenomena as the legal and educational systems and the media, the latter the government, police, and army. Collectively, these entities worked to prevent questioning of the dominant ideology of a society, as...
Adorno, Theodor Wiesengrund Reference library
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
...a theory of their economic underpinnings and cultural impact, such trends cannot be properly understood or evaluated. Autonomy According to Adorno, the emergence of advanced capitalism, with its ever-tighter fusion of state and economic power, does not leave the arts unaffected. Where these do not provide fodder for the culture industry apparatus, they become all the more alienated from mainstream society. Increased alienation does not lessen their social significance, however, for it gives them the distance needed for social critique and utopian projection....
