Panopticism, institutions and institutional power
- Foucault writing in 1977, discipline and punishment
- Jeremy Bentham 1791, political philosopher, designer of the panopticon
Panopticon
- multi functional building, always on show - constant visibility, central observation tower
- no one to feed off, you and the notion of institutional code
- automatic behaviour and functioning, power functions automatically without anyone exercising the power
- power as productive, power as a form of training, correctional, puts you to use
- always option of stepping out of line, but internalised to think about nothing but this path laid out for you
- constant methods of surveillance and monitoring - visible but unverifiable
- operates purely mentally
- panopticism = form of social control/discipline arranged in society, modern method of disciplinary society
- CCTV culture, permanent reminder of control, more important than whether or not it is actually useful or if it works
- self regulating, creation of docile bodies
- mass media as panopticon, codes of life/behaviour, how to feel, how to exist
- power is a relationship, we don't have to let this happen, can always be resisted
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