Seminar 3//Panopticism

Key points of Panopticism

• Self-control/Self-regulation 
• Social control 
• Productivity 
• Training 
• Makes us more useful
• Institutional power

Institutions

• Hospitals
• Schools                
• Army
• Police
• Prisons
• Churches 
• Government
• Marriage
• Big businesses
• Family
• Media 

Panopticon

• Designed by Jeremy Bentham in 1791.
• Foucault (1977) 'Discipline and punish'. 
• A space of visibility, everything is on display.
• The source of power is unverifiable.
• Individuality.
• Isolation.
• All a psychological effect.
• Lateral invisibility.
• Axial visibility.
• Self-monitoring.
• Self-correcting. 
• Light as opposed to dark.
• Surveillance. 
• It only works because people think they are under constant surveillance. 

'Panopticism'- modern disciplinary society. 

• Docile bodies.
• Power is a relationship.