Foucault's Discipline & Punish and The Hive Mind of Fandom

[saeva]

So, I wrote my Epistemology paper on Foucault's Discipline & Punish and the Hive Mind of Fandom. Eventually, as in next year, this will be developed into my senior thesis. So I thought, why not post it? Here goes nothing

Comments

[bellalarina]

Fascinating. :)

[femmenerd]

Power is definitely dispersed in fandom, especially given the fact that there is no identifiable function of the state (at least not internally

[anonymous]

I think this is the dumbest thing I've ever read. It has made me significantly dumber by reading it. It makes all of Livejournal dumber (and Livejournal was pretty dumb to begin with) purely for being posted here. I can't begin to explain everything that's profoundly stupid about this, but trust me, this is why special ed classrooms shouldn't have computers.

I'll grant you that you know a lot of big words, but big words don't necessarily mean the person using them isn't a flaming idiot, as you've proved very well. Granted all these huge dissertations on fandom and what it means are pretty pointless anyways, but yours manages to be especially asshattishly idiotic.

To anonymous, immediately above

[strangerian]

Well *that* was mature.

If you can't stand the heat of long words, honey, stay out of the kitchen.

To idiot, immediately above

[strangerian]

Lol, sweetie, you need to get laid stat.

[live_brave]

Fascinating. :D Fandom is a strange and interesting creature. Great sources too - Henry Jenkins work is great (I used it as a source when I wrote a paper on slash fanfiction for one of my classes). And my dear Foucault...:D I just finished up my grad studies in children's literature and we loved us some Foucault. Great work, and good luck with your upcoming senior thesis! :)