Internet Exercises

Exercise 1

Go to http://www.theory.org.uk/ctr-fou2.htm. Read "What's interesting about Michel Foucault," and answer the following questions:

a. What argument does the author of this page make about Michel Foucault's version of power versus those proposed by other theories?

b. How does the author reconcile other versions of power with Foucault's?

c. What specifically does Foucault's theory of power problematize in other theories?

Exercise 2

Go to http://www.dmsp.dauphine.fr/management/PapersMgmt/43Ritzer.pdf. Read "The Modern Las Vegas Casino-Hotel: The Paradigmatic New Means of Consumption," an article by George Ritzer and Todd Stillman, and then answer the following questions:

a. According to the authors, what are the paradigmatic expressions of the new means of consumption?

b. How do the authors move from a discussion of the classical theorists to postmodern social theory?

c. What are the roles of simulation and implosion in re-enchanting the new means of consumption?