>> Where Bentham’s design conceptualized power as technology in the form of the panopticon, Michel Foucault further explored and examined Benthan’s main hypotheis in his work Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. For Foucault, the panopticon is not just about surveillance but also about how it figures in other key elements of modernity, such as the ideas of power and the capacity of individuals to act independently and to make their own free choices. Foucault, uses the panopticon to mark a shift in how power is practiced, transiting from as “sovereign power”and it’s hidden dungeons, to present-day techniques which are not about a decrease in punishment, but an increase in punishment’s efficiency and effectiveness. For Foucault
