Panopticon

In regards to the internet, the world is at a standstill . The web has proven that it has unprecedented abilities. The internet has allowed ideas, opinions, and information to spread across the globe. However, the internet is under attack. Surveillance has become the expected norm. Neutrality is beginning to disappear. The freedom of the web is being taken away. This paper will examine the viewpoints of two thinkers on the current dispute about the internet. Freud would not have supported the…

individual, but to the system, to the institution. In his essay on Discipline and Punish, Foucault presents his idea of the panopticon mechanism, a mechanism in which visibility is a trap. With little importance over the actual individual in the role of the observer or of the observed, the object of the system is total power over the observed. Due to the unique shape of the panopticon, there are no corners and thus no blind spots for the observed to hide in. The private space is replaced by the…

Before delving into the criminal justice system at the time neoliberalism became popular it is a good idea to briefly look at the development of the justice system throughout history leading up to the system affected by a neoliberal view. The first prisons were introduced in medieval times. These prisons were more for containment instead of punishment. This introduced the start to modern prisons (Sharpe, 1988). During this time the death penalty had a main focus in regard to the penal system.…

Social theory involves ideas about the changes and developments within society. These ideas can be multidisciplinary ranging from anthropology to law. The Social theories involved are analytic structures or models used to examine social occurrences. It is during the 19th century that the three great classical theories of social and historical change became evident. The social cycle theory, the social evolutionism theory and the Marxist historical materialism theory. The majority of social…

movement. Moreover, an example of a disciplinary institution is prison or jails which are primary forms of social control, with some examples of post-disciplinary strategies of social control including surveillance such as with the design of the panopticon prison,…

and daughters. People are in power seems to be watching each and every move of the Native Americans, and if the power feels threatened by anybody they are getting killed or brutally murdered. It feels like the Native American community is in a Panopticon where they are being consistently watched 24/7. This created sense insecurity among the Native American communities around the country, and the evidence could be found in the books, in the videos that we watched…

Foucault's Discipline and Punish is a book based on the history of the penal system. Foucault uses this book to breakdown the process of punishment, what all it contain, and how power can affect punishment. He starts this book off by discussing the issues before the eighteenth century. When the issues were prominent, public execution and corporal punishment was the most commonly used forms of punishments. During this time period punishments were viewed as a ceremonial type of ordeal that…

1. Consult your reading from last week from Foucault and this week’s reading from Judith Butler. Using direct quotes from both Butler and Foucault, explain how Butler comes from of a Foucauldian tradition. What do they have in common? (4 marks, maximum 300 words) It is evident in Butler’s reading that she comes from a Foucauldian tradition. Foucault’s idea that discourse is “controlled, selected, organized” (Foucault, 1996) in the sense that what comes to be accepted as truth is based on 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 the prisoner- through visibility…

In Michel Foucault’s book Discipline and Punish, he writes of the dramatic increase in military effectiveness as a result of changes in the methods of discipline. These changes “increases the skill of each individual, coordinates these skills, accelerates movements, increases fire power, broadens the fronts of attack without reducing their vigour, increases the capacity for resistance” (210). Foucault also states that before these changes, military discipline was merely a device used as a means…