Panopticon

prisons serve an objective to promote disorderly conduct as a means of organizing and regulating crime control. One of the influences of Bentham’s perception of the Panopticon does not reduce and reconstruct a prisoner’s behaviour through its continuous surveillance. When we look into the similarities and differences between Panopticon and contemporary societies, it is crucial to acknowledge that urban space is more likely being complex than the idea of space under Foucault’s perspective of…

prisoners from the cells could be seen by the officer who was observing from the tower, but the prisoners could not see the officer. Michel Foucault says, "The Panopticon is a marvelous machine which, whatever use one may wish to put it to, produce a homogeneous effect of power." (Foucault 233). An institution like a school or prison in which a Panopticon was used produced the identical results for each individual. People in panoptic institutions are isolated from the outer world and exposed to…

Future Technology To Force Individuals To Comply to Mandatory Expectations Through examining the use of technology and how the idea of this futuristic practices and institutions influence the non-compliant convicts. In Bitch Planet the theory of a panopticon, transparency; holographic and artificially intelligent technology create an unruly prison that is constantly under surveillance. Focusing on the corruption in future technology and how it affects individuals that are susceptible towards…

imaginative attempt to conceive a future where women have lost their autonomy and rights, and where the American government is run by conservative moral and religious ideals. Atwood creates a dystopian story which frames itself through Michel Foucault’s Panopticon. The panoptic establishment relies upon complete visibility, a hierarchical organization of power, and an enclosed space. These three concepts are all prevalent throughout the novel. The lack of privacy is shown through Offred’s…

Gambling, political dissidence, and economy may not seem to have much in common at first, but all have a key goal of “beating the system”. Michel Foucault presents a method of discipline that attempts to destroy an individual’s likelihood of going against government rulings: panopticism. Panopticism advocates the idea that a prisoner or subject potentially under constant scrutiny will not misbehave under observation. In William Shakespeare’s Othello, Othello is under constant scrutiny. Likewise,…

According to Michel Foucault in his book Discipline and Punish, the Panopticon is a prison designed to establish power and control of one individual over the prisoners through observation. This observation is achieved through the prison’s annular structure, with the prisoners in confined cells facing the center, and the supervisor in a central tower (Foucault 200). The ring-like structure and the central tower allow the supervisor to see all inmates while simultaneously prohibiting them from…

In the year of 2011, a young college student by the name of Alexandra Wallace was brought into the cruel spotlight of society. Wallace was a student at the University of California, Los Angeles at the time. She posted a video on YouTube, complaining about how the Asians at UCLA did not know how to act properly in an American society. She was mostly irritated by the fact the Asians did not know how to act in a library and would speak too loudly on their phones. She is now known today as the…

the pastoral power of which intention is to protect, and it is enforced in the forms of record-keeping, categorizing, registering, defining, etc. Such power, therefore, is total and visible. On the other hand, Foucault discusses Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon , architecture with a tower at the center from which it is possible to see prisoners in the cells, represents the way in which discipline and punishment work in modern society. Guard in the tower is not visible though. Visibility of people in…

analyzed using Foucault’s understanding of discipline, Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon, and biopower. In the following section the APP will be examined using Foucault’s notion of governmentality. As such, according to a Foucauldian understanding, the goal of discipline is to facilitate normalization, which is defined by the dominant discourse of a particular society. To clarify, as Harvey and Rail (1995)…

them. Another example of this is Bentham’s Panopticon, in which there is a tall tower that has windows all around and it is surrounded by “peripheric buildings” which are divided into cells. With this layout, all that is needed is one person to stand in the tower to keep watch over everyone in the cells since the people in the cells are all singled out now and no one knows if they are being watched over or not. “Hence the major effect of the Panopticon: to induce in the inmate a state of…