JAV200H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Michel Foucault, Panopticism, Social Forces
21 Feb 2018
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Bentham"s panopticon architectural figure of this composition. Place a supervisor in a central tower and to shut up in each cell. Each actor is alone, perfectly individualized and constantly visible. Arranged spatial unities that make it possible to see constantly and to recognize immediately. Reverses the principles of dungeon; or rather of its three functions to enclose, to deprive of light and to hide it preserves only the first --- visibility is a trap. He is seen, be does not see; he is the object of information, never a subject in communication. The crowd, a compact mass, a locus of multiple exchanges, individualities merging together, a collective effect, is abolished and replaced by a collection of separated individualities. Major effect of the panopticon: to induce in the inmate a state of conscious and permanent visibility that assures the automatic functioning of power. That the inmates should be caught up in a power situation of which they are themselves.
