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Foucault
Discipline and Punish
Key Concepts of Foucault
What is the body's relationship to power?
How do we employ surveillance and control upon oursevles?
Panopticon (concept of Jeremy Bentham, but Foucault relies heavily upon it).
Analysis of penal system within it's social context
Panopitcon
Take a look at these websites. What do you notice?
https://www.easternstate.org/
http://www.prisonmap.com/
Panopticon
Panopticon: central observation tower placed in the middle to see into all the cells, but the inmates cannot see into the tower.
- you don't know if you are being watched.
Permanent visibility assures automatic functioning of power
Power is invisible and unverifiable
Panopticon cntd.
- Doesn't matter who is in the tower
- Automates and deindividualizes power
- Discipline creates "docile bodies"
- Exerts moral influence over behavior
- others? .
A Disciplinary Society
- Various measures of surveillance ensure discipline in a society.
- What other areas, outside of a prison, do we see this?
- What latent functions does this serve?
Watch this video from John Oliver on prison labor and what it means to live in a society of mass incarceration:
Surveillance Today
- What areas of your life are under surveillance today?
- Does this concern you?
- How do you apply this to living in a digital age?
- Are there any areas of your life where you are providing the surveillance of yourself?