Jannessa Mariscal
Vanessa Powers
English 214
October 22, 2015
Response paper #4 re: Panopticism
The Panopticism is a cell looking building. It has many cages, it deprives light, and it encloses everything. It is a circular structure with a center. The Panopticon functions as a kind of laboratory of power. Due to the fact that the tower is in the center, they can view everything and all movements from the inhabitants, everyone in there was constantly being watched and supervised. The tower is basically the main power and it keeps everything running in society. It breaks down how the separation works, so the leper victims and healthy ones creates the model of the division between one set of people and another in a disciplined society. The arrangement of the machine is so enclosed it excludes all things from the outside. At first it was as if it is a dark hole where visual is impaired, but as it …show more content…
There are two ways of exercising power over men. The first way is controlling their relations, and the second is separating them out of their dangerous mixtures. This was done by supervision and discipline. Discipline is described as an effective agent of change, such as increasing power, and broadening the fronts of attacks with out reducing strength. Discipline is what brings power into play. Foucault believes, "the disciplines function increasingly as techniques for making useful individuals." The abuse of power in our society is shown through the whole prison system as well. Not just in this writing but also in our every day life. It supposedly is being rehabilitated as a program. It is getting you back into a good place in society. But that is not always correct, instead inmates are being mistreated. They are being put off to the side for being different. Most of the times it is due to mental illness. This abuse of power is seen throughout history, and is always going back to the same idea of the
Vanessa Powers
English 214
October 22, 2015
Response paper #4 re: Panopticism
The Panopticism is a cell looking building. It has many cages, it deprives light, and it encloses everything. It is a circular structure with a center. The Panopticon functions as a kind of laboratory of power. Due to the fact that the tower is in the center, they can view everything and all movements from the inhabitants, everyone in there was constantly being watched and supervised. The tower is basically the main power and it keeps everything running in society. It breaks down how the separation works, so the leper victims and healthy ones creates the model of the division between one set of people and another in a disciplined society. The arrangement of the machine is so enclosed it excludes all things from the outside. At first it was as if it is a dark hole where visual is impaired, but as it …show more content…
There are two ways of exercising power over men. The first way is controlling their relations, and the second is separating them out of their dangerous mixtures. This was done by supervision and discipline. Discipline is described as an effective agent of change, such as increasing power, and broadening the fronts of attacks with out reducing strength. Discipline is what brings power into play. Foucault believes, "the disciplines function increasingly as techniques for making useful individuals." The abuse of power in our society is shown through the whole prison system as well. Not just in this writing but also in our every day life. It supposedly is being rehabilitated as a program. It is getting you back into a good place in society. But that is not always correct, instead inmates are being mistreated. They are being put off to the side for being different. Most of the times it is due to mental illness. This abuse of power is seen throughout history, and is always going back to the same idea of the