Panoptic discipline
In Michael Foiucault's "Panopticism" he breaks down our social/economical systems and explains societies mentality on the law system. He answers the "why's" in the way certain individuals act and think as they do. Many times his explanation is very much branched off of J. Bentham's "Panopticon". In one paragraph of "Panopticism", a disciplinary mechanism is described, which is considered the best way for one to be punished, in that new knowledge and learning is gained by every individual.In this paragraph on page 316, Foucault explains how he feels a person should be disciplined and he looks at it from many different angles. "This enclosed, segmented space, observed at every point, in which the individuals are inserted in a fixed place, in which the slightest movements are supervised, in which all events are recorded in which an uninterrupted work of writing links the center and periphery, in which power is exercised without division, according to a continuous hierarchical figure, in which each individual is constantly located, examined, and distributed among the living beings, the sick, and the dead-all this constitutes a compact model of the disciplinary mechanism." In this first sentence of the paragraph a descriptio
"It lays down for each individual his place, his body, his disease, and his death, his wellbeing, by means of an omnipresent and omniscient power that subdivides itself in a regular, uninterrupted way even to the ultimate determination of the individual, of what characterizes him, of what belongs to him, of what happens to him." The plague serves as a sort of god to the individual. It breaks everything down and as described is an "omnipresent and omniscient power". Acts as it is keeping an eye on the individual to sort of test and see how he/she would react knowing that they are being watched regardless of what they believe in or know... just how they would adapt to their own surroundings. But their was also a political dream of the plague, which was exactly its reverse: not the collective festival, but strict divisions; not laws transgressed, but the penetration of regulation into even the smallest details of everyday life through the meditation of the complete hierarchy that assured the capillary functioning of power; not masks that were put on and taken off, but the assignment to each individual of his "true" name, his "true" place, his "true" body, his "true" disease." This
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Bentham's Panopticon, Foiucault's Panopticism, BostonBedford/St Martins, disciplinary mechanism, Michel Panopticism, omnipresent omniscient, omniscient power, omnipresent omniscient power, sentence paragraph,
Approximate Word count = 801
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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