Sao Foucault's Panopticon

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Foucault was after the concept of a “pure community” he found the existence of a whole set of techniques and institutions for measuring and supervising abnormal beings, as well as bringing into play the disciplinary mechanisms created by fear. All modern mechanisms for controlling abnormal individuals derive from these. Sao Foucault’s overall thoughts on this concept maybe similar to that of the Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon, a building with a tower at the center from which it is possible to see each cell in which a prisoner is incarcerated. Visibility being the trap in this setting each individual is seen but cannot communicate with the warders or other prisoners. The crowd component is abolished similar to the internet. The panopticon induces …show more content…
In past civilizations there would be a drastic spacing between the kings or like he would state the bourgeois against the civilians, proletariats. Habermas would emphasize the role of capitalist modes of production, and that of long-distance trade in news and commodities in this evolution. Which is truly achieved through the concept of internet it has created a broader spectrum of resource availability. There would specified organizations and groups according to ones ethnicity, location, or physical characteristics. Generally he refers to a network of communication, information and points of view which gives the power to the people. Habermas argues that the world of the mass media is cheap and powerful. He says that it attempts to manipulate and create a public where it is none existent, and to manufacture consensus. This is where the title of this paper comes into place it creates this concept of globalization. The concept of globalization, being that of interactions and integrations among the people, companies, and governments of different nations, including a process driven by international trade and investment aided by technology, especially the internet. The strongest point on the concept of internet that Habermas makes is reduction of space between the classes, different nations, and other groups of

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