PHL217H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Panopticism
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*panopticon: model prison represent technique of power to discipline the body. Sustain power relation independent of person who exercise it. Inside of tower, no one actually has to guard once prisoners knows there is possibility someone is watching them. They discipline themselves! (principle of their own subjection- prisoners are their own jailers) In our society this disciplinary apparatus operate in schools, hospitals, monasteries, and religious ideas. *(205) mechanism of power reduced to its ideal form . You think about way it will actually function. *bartky criticism from foucault"s (209): she thinks he overlook/ignore gender differences. (132) stylish: society form us to be feminine or masculine. *3 kinds of disciplinary practices: size: society & culture shape ideal body size, trained to deferense, ornamented surface (136) B/c we normalize, everyone internalized discipline, no one to blame. This system makes females to subservience to men.
