Panopticon

Men always feel superior or one-step ahead of women because they have always been perceived as strong and intelligent. On the contrary, women, for centuries, are always viewed in a negative manner. I argue against this notion and strongly believe that women should not have to be objectified to be appealing to society. In 2009, an agency in Singapore came up with a Burger King advertising image to promote the chain’s “BK Super Seven Incher”. The model in the fast food image is represented as if…

The knowledge of ‘being watched’ affects human behavior to a great extent. This ideology is evident in Foucault’s Discipline and Punish as he uses Bentham’s Panopticon to demonstrate the principle. The Panopticon is essentially a model for external surveillance as it consists of a circular building constructed around a tower with guards who can watch the rooms at any given time. This model allows the guards to see the inmate, however…

Discussions of violent video games help to connect to earlier research on media violence by essentially confirming and furthering their original findings. For instance, some of the early research on media violence suggested that if someone frequently watched a particularly violent television show like The Following or Dexter, then they are more likely to become less empathetic and desensitized to the violence depicted in the shows. The viewer then begins to notice the violence hardly for what it…

The panopticon is a structure where an individual is watched and therefore, he must behave in a certain way or he will be punished. Society can be controlled, where everyone is being watched and no one can act how they truly want to. They are in a panopticon, a guardian can view everyone but they cannot view the guardian. Foucault states “Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories…

Panopticism theory is a social theory that was called after the Panopticon. Michel Foucault, a French philosopher, was the developer of the term “Panopticon” and he used that term in his book, Discipline and Punish. The book was published in 1975 in France and it was one of Foucault’s important books. The book explained what the Panopticon is and the Panopticism used in it. During the 20’th century, Panopticism was used a lot in many different places with different techniques to eliminate threat…

Sociological perspectives of punishment attempt to discover the cavernous roles that punishment carry’s out in society, the sociological view is that punishment is seen “as a complex social institution, shaped by an ensemble of social and historical forces” (Garland, 1991, p.115). The sociology of punishment has developed as part of many collective questions such as, how can authority and order be maintained in a developing society and how are members of the society expected to behave…

This essay will be an analysis piece on Animal Farm (1945) written by George Orwell (1903 - 1950) through the application of Michael Foucault’s (1926 - 1984) theory of politics of truth (1997) and the idea of Panopticon (1975). By viewing through Foucault’s theories, it will help decipher the intertextuality and the multiple layers of meaning within Orwell’s piece. Animal Farm tells a story of a group of farm animals rebelling against the human beings under the leadership of two pigs, Napoleon…

Symbolic capitalism is a theory developed by French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu. According, to Bourdeiu each individual occupies a position they are not only defined by one class. There is cultural capital (cultural codes), economic capital (money) social capital (networks) these capitals are transformed into symbolic capitalism. It is resources accessible to an individual, which are honor, prestige and reputation. Symbolic capital is how a person is judged by their community. Additionally,…

Toyo Ito in “Diagram Architecture” describes the architecture of Kazuyo Seijima and the spirit of her structures as ‘diagram architecture’ for the close similarity between the buildings themselves and the scale drawings representing them. Thus, Sejima’s works of architecture merge with the diagrams, as the diagrams showing functional conditions are transformed into constructed spatial forms in the greatest brevity. For Sejima, the architectural convention of planning rests mainly on the spatial…

Did you know the NSA’s budget includes a quarter-billion-dollar budget for information from corporations for information on the population? Foucault classifies power in terms of discipline and regulation, using the panopticon as an example of discipline where one is an enclosure and is observed with the possibility to be intervened on. Illustrating its efficiency in that it is not even essential for someone to be in the tower, but the mere possibility of it is enough to “discipline” someone.…