Re-cap notes

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.'