SOC101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Environmental Security, Http Cookie, Google Maps
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Theorizing survellance: prison designed as a circle and at the centre prisoners are disciplined by the gaze of the guard (which they cannot detect) Jeremy bentham and the panopticon: that had effect that they were constantly being watched, panopticon classroom in which teacher is seated on the last bench. Michael foucault described in his work discipline and punish how logics of survellence: foucault describes two extremes of discipline: At one extreme it is negative functions: arresting e(cid:448)il . Discipline vs punish: foucault plots the transition from coercive punishment to more modern forms of discipline. A(cid:374)d says do(cid:374)(cid:859)t do wrong because you would be injured physically: surveillance: is premised on discipline because it says that you are being watched so you should act accordingly, cctv you are constantly under surveillance. But you can never tell when they are watching or not. There are drawbacks to cctv surveillance: cost is high, they break down and require replacement, useless images.
