Panopticism, a system that induces in its subjects an eery feeling that one is being surveyed but can’t definitely say from where. We’ve all experienced this feeling, whether it be from a school, a church, or your own home, and that feeling has inevitably influenced our decisions. I have personally experienced this feeling many times, but my most relevant example would probably be working at The Pittsburgh Stop. On the corner Forbes and Bigelow Boulevard right between Hillman Library and the William Pitt Union, there is an outside vendor called The Pittsburgh Stop. The stand (what we call The Pittsburgh Stop) is set up with two separate triangular carts with it’s “front” facing the Hillman Library; the cart that is closer to Seven
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So to arrange things that the surveillance is permanent in its effect even if it is discontinuous in its action(Bartholomae 288)”. Similar to the inmates, we act almost the same when Chazz is not there just for the fact that we could be viewed by him any second so that results in an “automatic functioning of power”even without being spectated every second. Another parallel I see to Foucault’s panopticon is when he says “He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes responsibility for the constraints of power; he makes them play spontaneously upon himself; he inscribes in himself the power relation in which he simultaneously plays both roles; he becomes the principle of his own subjection (Bartholomae 290)”. I think Foucault is trying to say that the inmate or whoever is the subject is the bearer of power in the sense that he/she allows himself to be subjugated to panopticism, if they wanted to they could completely ignore the fact that someone could be viewing them, this runs true for the stand as well we could ultimately ignore Chazz’s rules and hope he didn't see us but we ourselves make us follow his rules when he is not
So to arrange things that the surveillance is permanent in its effect even if it is discontinuous in its action(Bartholomae 288)”. Similar to the inmates, we act almost the same when Chazz is not there just for the fact that we could be viewed by him any second so that results in an “automatic functioning of power”even without being spectated every second. Another parallel I see to Foucault’s panopticon is when he says “He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes responsibility for the constraints of power; he makes them play spontaneously upon himself; he inscribes in himself the power relation in which he simultaneously plays both roles; he becomes the principle of his own subjection (Bartholomae 290)”. I think Foucault is trying to say that the inmate or whoever is the subject is the bearer of power in the sense that he/she allows himself to be subjugated to panopticism, if they wanted to they could completely ignore the fact that someone could be viewing them, this runs true for the stand as well we could ultimately ignore Chazz’s rules and hope he didn't see us but we ourselves make us follow his rules when he is not