Panopticon

(portrayed by Andrew Lincoln), wakes up from a coma three months after the events of the epidemic have begun, and he is utterly unaware of the state of affairs. This series demonstrates Foucault’s ideas insofar as the living are the guards of the Panopticon, who have all the power and do surveillance over walkers in order to keep each other safe, whereas the dead are the inmates; they are seen by the living, but do not actually see. In season three, the main group of survivors finds a prison and…

Every year when winter comes, the holidays come rolling in, there are several holidays celebrated by families that all involve their own special traditions. For those who celebrate Christmas, a certain little elf has become all the rage and is finding its way into the homes of many and becoming a yearly tradition for millions of families. This little elf is, The Elf on The Shelf, which has exploded with popularity over the past ten years since its debut in 2005, in 2013 it even took place in the…

(Foucault, 1967). Using the idea of Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon, one can see how prisoners develop a forced sense of self-awareness to monitor their behavior to please prison wardens (Foucault, 1967). The elements panopticon is not just exclusive for prisons, rather, schools have now develop their own prison-like structure through the use of high security measures such as metal detectors, cameras, and increased SROs on campus. Through the use of the panopticon in a school setting, the rights of…

Both Douglas and Foucault agree on the idea that social maintenance and organization started with the same boundary of religion. They see religion as a strong institution that shapes categories and boundaries. These categories and boundaries take life of their own and extend their life. Their continuity is a central organizing factor. These extended lives become social institutions. Moreover, they both agree on how society is maintained and organized. Although these powerful forces of social…

ethics or morality as Crimp did when Crimp partially analysed Sullivan with Foucauldian thought. The concepts of the Surveillance and Panopticon was faintly remembered in Crimp’s analysis of Sullivan’s “Pro Pharma” piece. Surveillance, in Foucauldian thought dealt with people of power actively observing their subordinates in a process to maintain their power. Panopticon dealt with behaving within the rules, which are boundaries for the social norms in Foucauldian thought. In Crimp’s response,…

“Privacy has a politics.” This phrase can have different meanings to different people. In an excerpt titled “Privacy Has a Politics” from the article “Alone Together,” Sherry Turkle says this and explains her point with information pointing to the potential invasion of privacy. This phrase can simply mean that our information is not as private as we believe it is. First, there is a general belief that we are always being watched. Second, there is the knowledge of our information on the Internet…

“Hence, the major effect of the Panopticon: to induce in the inmate a state of conscious and permanent visibility that assures the automatic function of power.” (Foucault, 1979, p. 201) However, this power does not necessarily come from the person sitting in the tower of the Panopticon and watching. As Foucualt explains, the power rests in the system itself and not necessarily the people in power. “This architectural…

surveillance in a networked society. Using the case of Dodgeball, a mobile service that distributed location-based information of users, he categorizes surveillance that present in the everyday usage of Dodgeball into three different categories: voluntary panopticon, lateral surveillance, and self-surveillance. Humphreys checks many of his findings with the founder of Dodgeball, then he employs constant comparative method with an interpretive approach in order to understand the perspectives of…

The Panopticon is a cylindrical shaped prison, with well lit cells in the peripheral radius of the cylinder, in which the prisoners were individualised, a large courtyard in the middle of the prison, and a watchtower in the centre, from which guards could observe…

Sociology Explain how crime and criminal justice have been theorised? Criminology is now generally referred to as classical criminology which came into its own right 60/ 70 years ago, although it emerged around 130 years ago. It can be argued criminology emerged when the criminal justice system began to be questioned and the concern over identifying differences between criminals and non-offenders (Garland, 1994). There are various theories on criminology; those that will be discussed are…