Panopticism Research Paper

Panopticism theory is a social theory that was called after the Panopticon. Michel Foucault, a French philosopher, was the developer of the term “Panopticon” and he used that term in his book, Discipline and Punish. The book was published in 1975 in France and it was one of Foucault’s important books. The book explained what the Panopticon is and the Panopticism used in it. During the 20’th century, Panopticism was used a lot in many different places with different techniques to eliminate threat, for better surveillance, and to match the Panopticism concept that was used in Michel Foucault’s book, Discipline an Punish. Foucault said that Panopticism will be used in the future societies and his prediction was perfect and it is being used now. Everywhere we go people are watching us, most of the time we don’t know that we are being watched, but in reality, everywhere and every second we are getting watched by different people. Panopticism has spread virally in our modern society. Technologies are one of the most important concepts of Panopticism that is being used in our modern society to watch people doing everything they do, basically people use technologies to spy on what people do. This concept is so important because technology isn’t just one thing, but as a matter of fact it is more that a thousand thing that can all be used to spy on …show more content…
Well, Banks is also another concept of Panopticism because Banks track all your purchases through your card number so basically, you’re being watched by even the Bank you have a card with. Banks tend to do that to know everyone’s purchases because there are people who fakes money balances and hack accounts with small purchases. This Panopticism concept is one of the best because a typical person won’t have any problems with Banks to watch their purchases as long as they don’t charge money on his/her account and keep the user’s privacy