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FOUCAULDIAN REFLECTIONS OF AUTHORITY IN SOFTCOPS AND CLEANSED
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This paper discusses how Churchill’s Softcops and Kane’s Cleansed delve deeply into Michel Foucault’s ideas about power and authority by exploring literature’s challenges towards authority, how society enforces control, and its impact on dehumanisation. With this purpose, it tries to analyse Foucault’s ideas regarding authority and power intertwining with the themes of punishment and violence in these plays. In Softcops, Churchill dramatises the absurdities of authority and its more insidious way of punishment by turning public punishment into more invisible control through surveillance and normalisation that resembles Foucault’s panopticon. Cleansed, meanwhile, is a sensory examination of the extreme violence that lies at the heart of contemporary discipline systems with its institution. It presents a microcosm of social control where authority is not just everywhere but in you too. Softcops and Cleansed become important critiques of the processes whereby contemporary societies exercise control over their human populations, highlighting these systems’ dehumanising effects as well as how such authority builds up progressively within society. This paper emphasises how these plays continue to have such enduring significance of power, demonstrating their applicability, and reliability according to Foucauldian ideas in contemporary literature. It also encourages deeper reflection upon themselves within systems of governed powers by hinting at why they challenge audiences long afterwards.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Kaynakça
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
İngiliz ve İrlanda Dili, Edebiyatı ve Kültürü
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yazarlar
Erken Görünüm Tarihi
20 Ocak 2025
Yayımlanma Tarihi
20 Ocak 2025
Gönderilme Tarihi
2 Eylül 2024
Kabul Tarihi
18 Aralık 2024
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2025 Sayı: 66
APA
Demirtürk, M. (2025). FOUCAULDIAN REFLECTIONS OF AUTHORITY IN SOFTCOPS AND CLEANSED. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, 66, 165-174. https://doi.org/10.30794/pausbed.1542431
AMA
1.Demirtürk M. FOUCAULDIAN REFLECTIONS OF AUTHORITY IN SOFTCOPS AND CLEANSED. PAUSBED. 2025;(66):165-174. doi:10.30794/pausbed.1542431
Chicago
Demirtürk, Mehtap. 2025. “FOUCAULDIAN REFLECTIONS OF AUTHORITY IN SOFTCOPS AND CLEANSED”. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, sy 66: 165-74. https://doi.org/10.30794/pausbed.1542431.
EndNote
Demirtürk M (01 Ocak 2025) FOUCAULDIAN REFLECTIONS OF AUTHORITY IN SOFTCOPS AND CLEANSED. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi 66 165–174.
IEEE
[1]M. Demirtürk, “FOUCAULDIAN REFLECTIONS OF AUTHORITY IN SOFTCOPS AND CLEANSED”, PAUSBED, sy 66, ss. 165–174, Oca. 2025, doi: 10.30794/pausbed.1542431.
ISNAD
Demirtürk, Mehtap. “FOUCAULDIAN REFLECTIONS OF AUTHORITY IN SOFTCOPS AND CLEANSED”. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi. 66 (01 Ocak 2025): 165-174. https://doi.org/10.30794/pausbed.1542431.
JAMA
1.Demirtürk M. FOUCAULDIAN REFLECTIONS OF AUTHORITY IN SOFTCOPS AND CLEANSED. PAUSBED. 2025;:165–174.
MLA
Demirtürk, Mehtap. “FOUCAULDIAN REFLECTIONS OF AUTHORITY IN SOFTCOPS AND CLEANSED”. Pamukkale Üniversitesi Sosyal Bilimler Enstitüsü Dergisi, sy 66, Ocak 2025, ss. 165-74, doi:10.30794/pausbed.1542431.
Vancouver
1.Mehtap Demirtürk. FOUCAULDIAN REFLECTIONS OF AUTHORITY IN SOFTCOPS AND CLEANSED. PAUSBED. 01 Ocak 2025;(66):165-74. doi:10.30794/pausbed.1542431