Review of Panopticism lecture.
Panopticon - Jeremy Bentham, design for building, 1971, used for prisons, schools, hospitals, institutions.
Constant visibility/invisibility - institutional gaze
Self discipline - depersonalises
Self regulating
Isolation - like a laboratory, experiment
Individualising the experience increases psychological actions
Binary division - eg mad/sane
Productive - concentrate harder, no talking, got to work
Seek to correct unproductive behaviour
Make people insane to make them sane
Under surveillance
Shift from physical to mental discipline - modern disciplinary society
Society where social control is woven into every kind of existence
Examples of Panopticism
- Facebook - performance of yourself behaving how you think someone else wants you to present yourself to the world
- Schools
- Hospitals
- Media
- Advertising - shows images of 'perfect' life all the time. should look/should act? makes people not comfortable with who you are, correct body for someone else
Dosile Body - easily trained, controlled
Power - power is a relationship A > B
- school teacher has control over a class rather than its more
- a <-> b
- only exists because they allow it
- students sit quiet let themselves be controlled
Affects the controllers as well as the controlled
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