The 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 the observer. The observer can control how individuals behave and disciplines them according to what they want from them. In old times it took hundreds of people to keep watch and control of the same amount of people, but now with a Panopticon it only takes one or two people to keep control of hundreds of people. In a panoptic prison, the prisoner cannot see the observer, so the prisoner does
The 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 the observer. The observer can control how individuals behave and disciplines them according to what they want from them. In old times it took hundreds of people to keep watch and control of the same amount of people, but now with a Panopticon it only takes one or two people to keep control of hundreds of people. In a panoptic prison, the prisoner cannot see the observer, so the prisoner does