SOSC 2560 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Panopticism, Michel Foucault, Biopower
5 Apr 2017
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Punished him, by boiling his body in hot oil, skinning him. 400 year old cutting instrument used to cut human beings right in half. That you how power is exercised? could be next if you misbehave. How discipline as a form of self-regulation" encouraged by institutions permeates modern societies. From a system where the king is seen as the embodiment of the nation to bourgeois system to the present system. The shift in punishment from inflicting intolerable pain to present day is a shift in the mechanisms of power and punishment and should not be seen to reflect progress or evolution. Ancient regime vs. modernity external punishment vs. internal punishment disfigured body vs docile body main point of punishment body subject of punishment, noooow soul is the subject of punishment (mind) Main sites of punishment to show the torture visible to the nation scaffold vs. (now-hidden) prison. Ashamed individual (body of the criminal raised more sympathy amongst the nation)
