Panopticism

critiquing the “phoniness” of those around him, Holden attempts to avoid confronting his fear of growing up. Holden resists change by clutching his childhood and refusing to accept reality. By avoiding his fear, Holden inadvertently falls victim to panopticism. Salinger employs negative capability in writing that Holden “was sort of crying” without “[knowing] why.” Holden evades offering an explanation for his tears, allowing the reader to ascertain the extent of his inner turmoil. Holden masks…

costumer is and the payment process can be hassle free. The driver and the user are well aware that Uber has their personal information and their geo location can be accessed. Jeremy Bentham talked about surveillance of the workers in his theory of panopticism and in the modern time this is a way of surveillance. Once the customer has done his journey with the Uber driver they have no concern with the driver and if they were to be classified as employees then they would be monitored whenever…

teaching students and allowing them to achieve a bright future unlike prisons. The truth is both prisons and school have an immense power over their inhabitants, even without directly exercising it. Michel Foucault introduced an idea known as the Panopticism, adapted from an architectural figure called Bentham’s Panopticon. The Panopticon is a circular prison building where prisoners are placed in cells that are isolated from one another disabling them from watching each other. The guards…

Depending on whom you ask, it can be hard to find a television show that both entertain its audience while simultaneously critiques societies use of technology. The word technology is derived from the Greek tekhnologia, which meant a systematic treatment of an art, craft, or technique and was originally used to refer to grammar. French theorist, Michel Foucault, defined the Greek word techne as a rationality that is consciously governed. To Foucault, technology had a much broader meaning than…

this passage, Foucault states that the significant of the disciplinary. Uses discipline fortify our society’s foundation, also create a connection between each individual. Discipline promote the whole society from the social ‘quarantine’, to ‘panopticism’. Thus the power is no longer just replaced us, it link us together to be a whole…

shifts sovereign power to the concept of disciplinary power. Through these disciplinary constructs, power becomes the production of individuals. The power of discipline will then be explained through hierarchical gaze, normalizing judgement, and Panopticism. Using these concepts, I will argue that Karl Marx’s concept of class revolution and how his economic fueled revolution is far…

Famous authors and artists are often lauded for the madness that lurks behind their works. They were allowed to freely express themselves through a variety of media, whether it was music, art, or even through narrative. Their popularities stemmed from their abilities to envision new, imaginative ideas that had not been thought of before, at least by any ‘sane’ person. However, their situations would not be the same had someone stifled their creativity; their creativity was even an outlet for…

Hunger Artist” allows one to consider how the consequences of inconsistent surveillance and oppression by authority play out in Brazil. On the other hand, Michel Foucault’s definitions of an ideal system of discipline and surveillance featured in “Panopticism” reveal the Ministry of…

Throughout all facets of history, religion exists as a forceful and manipulative force imprisoning society through totalitarian control. It could be argued that this control is executed through a plethora of brainwashing techniques similar to those within Orwell’s dystopian nation of Oceania in 1984. A detailed analysis reveals parallels to religion within the text. Though this religious connotation may not exist as an initial, intended outcome of the author; ideals of modern philosophers like…

Imagine walking into a dungeon. The tall, medieval, castle-like structures automatically instill within you a sense of formidability, inferiority, and danger. Prison architecture achieves a similar feeling. Foucault, in his chapter Panopticism, presents Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon- the design of prison buildings where a tower stands tall in the center, surrounded by all of the prisoners’ cells. This design automatically ensures the functioning power- the superiority of the state over…