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The Thai Regime of Images
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The Thai regime of images as mentioned in this paper is an internally differentiated form of power that exerts systematically different types of policing and control over actions and discourse in the private and public spheres, respectively.Abstract:
This study analyses the empirical character and logical form of modes of Thai power, which the author calls the Thai regime of images. The regime of images is an internally differentiated form of power that exerts systematically different types of policing and control over actions and discourse in the private and public spheres, respectively. Under this regime, actions performed and statements uttered in the public ( satharana ) domain are more stringently monitored than identical actions and utterances restricted to domains that may be no less visible but which are culturally labelled as private ( suan tua ). When statements or representations do not conform with idealized forms, and are perceived as disrupting, "the image of smooth calm" ( phap-phot haeng khwam-sa-ngop-riap-roi ), then both formal (legal) and informal (cultural) modes of power may be mobilized to expel the unwanted representations from the public domain. This regime of power/knowledge has epistemological implications, determining what can and cannot be articulated as public knowledge in Thailand.read more
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The Performative State: Semi-coloniality and the Tyranny of Images in Modern Thailand*
TL;DR: In this article, the authors trace the history of this regime of power/knowledge and power/prestige and show that rather than being traditional, it took its present form as part of Siam's responses to the encroachment of the Western powers in the nineteenth century.
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PROGRESS AND ITS RUINS: Ghosts, Migrants, and the Uncanny in Thailand
TL;DR: In this paper, stories of ghosts and criminals in urban high-rise buildings and suburban gated communities in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai are analyzed, and it is shown how, for many in these communities of exclusion, the fantasy of progress and development has been rendered uncanny.
Indigenizing the cold war : nation-building by the border patrol police of Thailand, 1945-1980
TL;DR: Hyun et al. as discussed by the authors examined the evolution of the Thai ruling elite's indigenization in the following three periods: realignment of civilian-military relations between 1945-1957, military domination during 1957-1973, and the royalist elite's rise to power from 1973 to 1980.
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Natural Potency and Political Power: Forests and State Authority in Contemporary Laos
TL;DR: Sarinda Singh as discussed by the authors explored the social and political importance of forests in contemporary Laos and challenged common views of the rural countryside as isolated and disconnected from national social debates and politics under an authoritarian regime.
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Hegemony and the politics of culture and identity in Thailand.
TL;DR: In this paper, the establishment of the Ministry of Culture in Thailand needs to be understood in a broadly historical perspective that relates to the role of culture in hegemonic strategies of the state.
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Power/Knowledge: Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977
Michel Foucault,Colin Gordon +1 more
TL;DR: The Eye of Power: A Discussion with Maoists as mentioned in this paper discusses the politics of health in the Eighteenth Century, the history of sexuality, and the Confession of the Flesh.
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The History of Sexuality, Volume 1: An Introduction
TL;DR: Michel Foucault menawarkan eksplorasi tentang mengapa kita merasa terdorong untuk terus menerus menganalisis dan mendiskusikan seks as discussed by the authors.
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Simulacra and Simulation
TL;DR: The Disneyland imaginary is neither true nor false: it is a deterrence machine Set up in order to rejuvenate in reverse the fiction of the real world as discussed by the authors, since everything is already dead and risen in advance.
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No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies
TL;DR: For example, this paper pointed out that given the fervor bought about by the malaise felt towards transnational corporate capitalism it is no surprise to find that Klein is being branded in her own right as the 'pin-up revolutionary' (according to the Irish Times) of the antiglobalization movement.