CRM 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Jeremy Bentham, Panopticon, Waterboarding

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 300
• Professor: anke allspach

Document Summary

Crm300 week 4: marx said that the state is and works with the bourgeouise class. In marxist theory the state is treated as a given power holder. The spectacle: we have moved away from torture as a form of discipline and soverign power, things such as waterboarding, the garote, all targetting black populations in colonized areas. Disciplinary power; death and torture to allowing people to self. It is symbolic of disciplinary power which is associated with modern liberal. Foucault: timelines and surveillance: panoptic gaze, self-governance, behavioural adjustments, repetition, normalization. Foucault: the panopticon and surveillance: the idea of all-seeing, all-knowing power spread into all fabrics into society, for example through the timeline: regulating conduct down to minute details (mathiesen. Is political: from sovereign power (the culture of the spectacle: targeting, body, pain, death, physical coercion, torture, public spectacle, these sovereign practices produced mass upheaval: resistance and revolutions. To disciplinary power (carceral culture: principle of panopticon.