100 Word Essay - Draft summary

Is our behavior being monitored by a higher force (religion) or is Panopticism leading us into a false sense of judgement?

Architectural space at churches is laid out so bold as to why you are there. 'The gaze is alert everywhere'' (Because Jesus gave his life for our sins) This is forever exampled in the huge crucifix mounted which can be seen from the front of the church's entrance. This instantly gives a feel of survailence.'Discipline brings into play its power'

The walls are long and high with huge stained glass windows demonstrating the catastrophic sacrifice tale in which Jesus surfers. This again works with the cross to panel you in to guilt, although you have done nothing wrong. From entering the church, you are thereby surrounded by these reminders of what happened.

'This surveillance is based on a system of permanent registration' Although off peek hours the church remains quite commonly empty in the main hall, with the fixtures on the walls you feel like someone is there, the church is laid out as if it was a higher court and certain people sit in certain places.'Supervising and correcting the abnormal brings into play the disciplinary mechanisms to which the fear of the plague gave rise'

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Key elements:

Docile Bodies – Self regulated – Institutional Gale Discipline – Mental Constraint

Panoptical model – a system of discipline

What things in modern society can you see as panoptical?

CCTV – Changes the way people feel and act around being surveyed by a higher force. Gives a physical choice between whether or not you should do something or not.

Swipe cards – tracking, who are in the building and the time, gain access to certain areas of the building.

Passports – Chips to track location of where the owner is
‘Power is a Relationship’

Overall - Controlling and confusing

Panopticism - Michel Foucault

p77-78 - Paragraph two/three - Superviser/ controller of information and decisions. Foucault writes his ideas down next to each other. He writes dicipline as a mechanism. Ordering peoples minds, emotions, thoughts and illness. He uses dicipline as a metaphor stating as if it through peoples veins i.e. It is something personal, has to happen to live.

How did society deal with lepers? - the plague gave rise to disciplinary projects (the project of changing dicipline into a mechanism)

p80 - visability is a trap - the building works anti to a cell. to arrange things that surveillance is permanent power should tend to render its actual exercise unnecessary. (the building is a machine, mechanism of power) the power of panopticism, (you can always see, but never identify the source).

p83 - 'A real subjection is born mechanically from a ficttitious relation.'