Berger, Bordo, Foucault- Do The Wise Think Alike?.
Michel Foucault and John Berger both concur that the use of images can play a positive or a negative role within a society. Bordo's foundation of her fundamentals is centralized around the negative aspects of images because advertisements influence and subconsciously manipulate the moralities and perspectives of women. .
In opposition, Foucault states that there are two images of discipline, the enclosed institution, which turns inwards towards negative functions (arresting evil, breaking communications, suspending time, etc.). Then he mentions the other image, the Panoptic arrangement, which is the discipline mechanism (a functional mechanism that must improve the exercise of power by making it lighter). The enclosed institution portrays the negative aspect of a disciplinary schema because there is no progression ever developed within the inner structure. The objects and subjects within the system (prisoners, students) never feel a sense of development from day to day; they are never in the proper geometric arrangement, which would make them more successful. They simply run their daily routines that promise no standard of flawlessness against tribulations. The positive image of discipline that Foucault mentions is that of Panopticism, where visibility traps the minds.
and bodies of all of the players in the game. The end result of succession is confidently inevitable because no one is left out and everyone has a position. This is positive because everyone is being involved. There is no exclusion.
Yet, Berger declares that every image embodies a way of seeing. His implication of images is extracted as a type of unmolested ideal. He states that images are the most powerful and precise testimony of the past. To augment to an image something that was not previously visible, or for an individual to include an essay that was not an original piece is simply a form of mystification.
