Comparing Foucault And Panopticism

Comparing Foucault And Panopticism
Panopticism is a social theory named after the Panopticon, according to Foucault, his describes a watch tower in a prison and he thinks Panopticism
is how people act different when they're being watched. Rayner perspective on Panopticism is how we can use social media to our advantage. In
this essay, I will analyze both Foucault and Rayner perspective on Panopticism and will determine the rhetorical appeals of both writings. This is an
example of ethos because "Generally speaking, it might be said that discipline are techniques for assuring the ordering of human multiplicities. It is
true that there is nothing exceptional or even characteristics in this: every system or power or presented with the same problem" (Foucault, 2012, p.
207). Foucault is one of the most prominent philosopher of the 20th century. He had a strong influence in philosophy, but also in a wide range of
humanistic and social scientific disciplines. Foucault was the philosopher who created the term, "Panopticism". This is an example of Logos because,
"In this task of adjustment, discipline had to solve a number of problems for which the old economy of power was not sufficiently equipped. It could
reduce the inefficiency of mass phenomena: reduce what, in a multiplicity, make it much less manageable than unity...." (Foucault, 2012, p. 208). He
talks about the watch tower in a prison and they noticed when people are being watched from the watchtower, people change their behavior. Foucault
believes
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Explain The Panopticon By Michel Foucault
According to Michel Foucault, power is knowledge and knowledge is power. He also believed that as individuals, everyone will react to situations in
different ways. Foucault said that power "reaches into the very grain of individuals, touches their bodies and inserts itself into their actions and
attitudes, their discourses, learning processes and everyday lives."1 Foucault believed that knowledge is always a form of power, but he took it a step
further and told us that knowledge can be gained from power. Through observation, new knowledge is produced. Foucault presents these thoughts in the
following manner.
"Knowledge linked to power, not only assumes the authority of 'the truth' but has the power to make itself true. All knowledge, once applied...show
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This building allowed the guard, who was usually located in the center tower, to monitor every prisoner while no prisoner could see the guard. This
created an illusion of being monitored even when the guard was not looking at a particular inmate. This constant observation acted as a control
mechanism; a consciousness of constant surveillance is internalized. According to us, the documentation of Sijil was similar to a Panopticon prison. It
gave the Ottoman state, an ability to constantly monitor every subject by recording them into Sijils. The documentation of its subjects and the
territorialisation of Sharia law can be considered as the process of govenrmentality (2nd point above) in Ottoman empire. By documenting the different
parameters of its subject, the state always knew how, what and when to exercise its power. This 'How–What–When' represents the knowledge which is
required to yield power and power again gives them the ability to further observe them and these new observations lead to new knowledge and news
ways of exercising power. Thus it becomes a vicious

Michael Foucault Panopticism
Every function has its own system of organization that, maybe for the time being, works for that system. On a micro level, work is done, knowledge
may be learned, and care may be provided. However, eventually that system can be overturned. If there is not an exact power system that establishes
order within a function, it will not work. Panopticism, by Michael Foucault, shows the perfect power system that creates efficiency and self–discipline
where as Bartleby, by Herman Melville, shows a system of chaos. If the Panopticon power system was installed into the office in Bartleby, then there
would be no rebellion from the employees and more productivity, demonstrating the importance of the system to keep order in society. Within
Panopticism,...show more content...
In this system, the established authority is able to use discipline as a mechanism. Discipline is necessary in every function, from the army to the
school system. It is able to "increase the skill of each individual" and "coordinate these skills" while "enforcing respect for the regulations and
authorities... preventing thefts or losses" and increase "output and therefore profit" (Foucault 356). The system is able to train the people within
to have respect for the head figure and do what is expected. There is no rebellion and the system works. Discipline is able to fix, it "clears up
confusion," and allows for the "production of knowledge and skills" (Foucault 362). When one is disciplined, they understand what can and
cannot be done, and are able to follow these guidelines to reach new limits. They create new functions from new knowledge, resulting in an
increased need for more leaders and power. The "formation of knowledge and the increase of power regularly reinforce one in a circular process" in
order to cross thresholds and improve society (Foucault 366). The system of discipline is able to inspire and create to reach new levels. However, in
Bartleby, there is no improvements or new findings because of the lack of discipline. Turkey, Nippers, and Bartleby all have their own methods of
working and do

Michele Foucault's Essay 'Panopticism'
In Michele Foucault's essay "Panopticism," the contingent difficulties of the text seem to be this rhetoric's most evident challenge; lots of languages
littered throughout the piece that would not be primarily seen in typical conversation. When going through the piece, I often found myself needing to
take brief hiatuses while reading when discovering a foreign word and either looking at possible context clues of these unfamiliar words or occasionally
looking up their definitions on the internet to ensure understanding of the text. The text opens with descriptions of the preventive procedures carried
out in attempts to quarantine people that contracted the seventeenth–century plague epidemic. Such as, mass confinement of those afflicted...show more
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For example, modern days schools are often institutions that behave in a nearly identical manner to panoptic principles previously mentioned,
particularly in the grade school level. These schools intact unwavering rules and mandates for a student to follow to do well academically and
behaviorally. Consequently, as a student gets older, there is a gradual progression of freedom due to the assumption that an older student will behave
and act in a more school appropriate way when compared to a student that is younger. However, even at the high school level, their is still evident
attempts at controlling in classrooms and administrative levels. Where the teacher can essentially be the dictator in the classroom with no acceptation
to any other way of doing things beyond the way they teach their students. Likewise, the school administration also executes totalitarian like the rule on
students, other administrators, and teachers. All this rigid structure and rule are for the purpose of controlling the students and other non–high ranking
positions, these groups of people are the inmates in panoptic prisons. Classrooms are the cells at which a student is bound to for a predetermined
amount of time if they leave early without official reasons for there release negative repercussions arise. The teacher

Panopticism Essay
In his essay "Panopticism," Michel Foucault introduces the Panopticon structure as proof of modern society tending toward efficient disciplinary
mechanisms. Starting with his example of the strict, intensely organized measures that are taken in a typical 17th–century plague–stricken town,
Foucault describes how the town employed constant surveillance techniques, centralized a hierarchy of authorities to survey households, partitioned
individual structures to impose certain behavior, and record current information about each individual.
As society has progressed, Foucault explains, these practices have expanded into other institutions such as hospitals, schools, prisons and asylums.
Bentham's Panopticon embodies such disciplinary...show more content...
"The Panopticon functions as a kind of laboratory of power," Foucault declares; indeed, much knowledge can be ascertained by "penetra[ting] into
men's behavior" (379).
Foucault introduces the modern police force as an example of Panopticism. He explains that the development of a more centralized police force in the
late eighteenth century stemmed from the need of sovereigns to maintain a sort of surveillance over all miniature details. With a mobilized, invisible
force stretched from even the most "extreme limits", it becomes possible to extend constant supervision "to reach the most elementary particle"
(Foucault 386). The organization of the police became the vehicle in which political power could keep a "permanent, exhaustive, omnipresent" gaze on
the entire population; a regular Panopticon for the city. Beyond duties of surveillance, the police would also pursue and punish criminals, plotters, and
opposition movements as a way to demonstrate the consequences of bad conduct; fear would then keep the population as pure as possible and
"accustomed ... to order and obedience" (Foucault 387).
As Foucault remarked, many disciplinary mechanisms and practices are still kept alive in today's modern institutions. The Patriot Act is one example;
one highly controversial provision of the act allows the FBI to acquire personal records (such as email, documents, library records) for the purposes of
gathering

Michel Foucault And The Panopticon
I am actually very familiar with Michel Foucault, and most criminology students are familiar with his idea (from Jeremy Bentham) of the panopticon
and it will come up time and again. The information I already knew of was all reestablished in reading through this chapter, "Panopticism", from
Discipline and Punish. I knew that the panopticon was the idea of a tower in a prison where a guard could look and see every prisoner. However, the
prisoners do not always know when there are guards are in the prison, so they will alter their behaviour even if they believe that they are being
watched. It all concerns surveillance curving and controlling human behaviour. There are two key principles with the panopticon: the visibility of
power (the guard tower where everyone can see that power exists), and unverifiable power (one is not sure when one is being watched). Importantly,
"the Panopticon must not be understood as a dream building: it is the diagram of a mechanism of power reduced to its ideal form" (Foucault, 1975, p.
511). Ultimately, in Foucault's panopticon, disciplinary power is executed through surveillance and knowledge. Although I have decent foundational
knowledge on the panopticon, I still learned from this reading. I was particularly fascinated with the proposition that the panopticon may have been
inspired by Le Vaux's menagerie at Versailles. Foucault explains, "the Panopticon is a royal menagerie; the animal is replaced by man, individual
distribution by specific

Essay on Foucault Panopticism
Panopticism by Michel Focault
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"Our society is not one of spectacle, but of surveillance; under the surface of images, one invests bodies in depth; behind the great abstraction of
exchange, there continues the meticulous concrete training of useful forces; the circuits of communication are the supports of an accumulation and a
centralization of knowledge; the play of signs defines the anchorages of power; it is not that the beautiful totality of the individual is amputated,
repressed, altered by our social order, it is rather that the individual is carefully fabricated in it, according to a whole technique of forces and bodies.
(pp.333–34)"
In the essay, Panopticism, by Michel Focault, he makes the argument...show more content...
The persons with the plague (lepers were included in this group) were always observed to account for their presence. These people were supposed
to be present at their windows for attendance. Where they not present at the time, they were marked as dead. Their family would be removed, the
house would be cleaned out, perfumed, and then, a mere four hours later, people would move back in. Obviously, the fear of not being observed
would be strong in this situation, a direct result of the drastic measures taken once someone's presence could not be observed. Though this fear has
the opposite motivation of the healthy citizens, who, knowing they are being watched, are afraid to do wrong, it works on the same basic principle.
That if one knows they are being watched, it remains a constant consideration in their mind, regardless of the presence of an observer, the fear will
always be present.
The Panopticon, a prison described by Foucault, "is a machine for dissociating the see/being seen dyad: in the peripheric ring, one is totally seen,
without ever seeing" (321, Foucault). This literally means that in the formation of the panopticon those who are being seen can not see one another
and the one who sees everything can never be seen. That is the most important tool of the panopticon. Foucault makes this assumption about today's
society by saying that we are always being watched whether we know it or not. One always keeps an eye over their shoulder as a

Michel Foucault's Panopticon
In "Discipline and Punish" of Michel Foucault, the author mentions the Panopticon in order to make the world better by partitioning and controlling
each small group or individual, force them to behave morally. This concept turns out to be one of the most popular theory which is represent in The
Hunger Games – a famous novel of Suzanne Collins, through how the Capitol televises and directs all 12 Districts as a whole and the tributes in arena
during the Hunger Games. Panopticon, or social media in the modern society, is also emphasizing its isolating power to the youth at the present.
Beginning with the description of how measures was taken to fight against the plague in the seventeenth century, Foucault then discusses about Jeremy
Bentham's...show more content...
While Katniss wishes that she was not recorded so she could be herself, the teenagers today feels like they are ignored without other people get
involve in their own lives. Why do they have such those feelings? Panopticism might be the best answer. Remember that in those structure, each
individual can be seen but cannot communicate with others. Same thing happens to the youth when they do not feel connected to the surroundings.
The youth always say they are lonely and they do not have people who they can count on or have close relationship with. So they publish themselves
to get noticed, to be known, to be cared, to be talked about. They also seek affection by simply or secretly getting any semblance of relationship they
can find, such as friend on Facebook who they have never met or any video of celebrities on YouTube (Simmerman

Discipline And Punish: Panopticism
Panopticism is a social theory developed by Michel Foucault; in Discipline and Punish, Foucault suggests that people self–regulate their behavior
because they feel they are constantly being watched, making direct supervision unnecessary. Institutions in society such as schools, prisons, factories,
and hospitals rely on the ability to observe individuals associated with such places. Panopticism is widely used to monitor and control people. In
"Antlers" by Rick Bass, the characters' constant awareness of society attitudes influences them to question what they think,say, or do.
People can come see the valley whenever they like, demonstrating how the valley operates as a panopticon institution: " In fact, any panopticon
institution, ... my...show more content...
In "Antlers", hunting is widely practiced; however, the residents are aware of the stigma surrounding hunting, driving them to justify their actions. The
narrator's words in the following quotes demonstrate this: " She understands everyone hunts here, men and women alike. She knows we love animals,
but for one or two months out of the year, we also love to hunt them" (113, "Antlers"). Although hunting is an important aspect of life for most of the
residents in the valley, because it is frowned upon, the residents experience discomfort concerning their hobby, demonstrating how although the valley
is isolated, they are unable to escape society's surveillance. The residents feel that hunting is an enjoyable pastime; however, they are aware of society's
negative attitude toward it, feeling guilty for hunting animals, ultimately trying to justify their actions to soothe their

In Michel Foucault's essay, Panopticism, the effects of making a person visible and isolated are explained. Before Foucault addresses his theory,
Panopticism, he first explains Jeremy Bentham's architectural structure, the Panopticon. Foucault explains the Panopticon structure is "at the periphery,
an annular building; at the center, a tower" (184). Essentially, this means that there is a larger tower in the center, which is completed surrounded by
individual cells. These cells have both a window facing the tower and one facing away; this allows light to shine through the windows making the
prisoner completely visible. Combined with making a prisoner visible, some type of superior must be in the tower periodically to ensure the feeling of
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In conjunction self–policing, the panoptic structure and Panopticism are useful for "drawing up differences" between people (190). Due to the fact that
each of the prisoners are enclosed in their own isolated cell, their different tempers, aptitudes, and several other personality traits can be analyzed
without the fear of imitation from viewing other inmates behaving differently. I will be utilizing Foucault's theory of Panopticism to analyze my
experiences in a nursing home that has the same structural design as panoptic structure. The nursing home that I am reflecting my experience from
resembles a panoptic structure because there is a central nurse's station surrounded by individual resident rooms and a common gathering space. The
nurse's station and the necessary staff rooms are at the center of the unit, similar to the central tower. This is the command center for information about
the resident's behavior and any change in their medical or temperamental status. Ultimately, this is where the power source is situated. Conversely, this
makes the resident's rooms similar to cells and the residents inside, comparable to prisoners. In each resident room there is almost everything the
resident would need such as a bathroom, clothes, and various personal items. Like a prisoner in the panoptic structure mentioned earlier, the

Michel Foucault Panopticism
"Panopticism is a social theory named after the Panopticon, originally developed by French philosopher Michel Foucault. The "panopticon" refers
to an experimental laboratory of power in which behaviour could be modified, and Foucault viewed the panopticon as a symbol of the disciplinary
society of surveillance." (Foucault pg. 1) Even though panopticism was created in the 1950's, we still use it in modern day society. It has been
modernized into using security cameras, religion, etc.... Most security cameras are just for show and not to actually record you or they are on and
operating, but rarely anyone is watching. With these in place, people will self regulate their behavior so they will not get caught. Security cameras
have been used as a

Foucault Panopticism
about that person (past and present); things that eventually you can use to control, alter, mould, and even penalize with. This is what Foucault meant
when he stated that "using techniques of subjection and methods of exploitation, an obscure art of light and the invisible was secretly preparing a new
knowledge of man" (Foucault 1984, 189). Today, Foucault's theory ofsurveillance is still very much in practice especially with the law enforcement
agencies such as the police department, the Federal Bureau Institution, and the Central Intelligence Agency.
Apart from sovereign power as discussed above, Foucault also believed that the educational system was simply another tool through which humans
were monitored, and this was made possible through...show more content...
In his view, the very architecture of school buildings, hospitals, prisons, and state buildings were designed to depict power (Foucault 1984, 190). To
Foucault, power employed the "mechanism of panopticism" to observe and control (Foucault 1984, 206). The idea of panopticism here is being used
to denote a system where institutions use open spaces as a means of exercising power. For example, Foucault saw great similarities in the spatial
design of the military camp and high schools, hospitals, and prisons. In Foucault's words, "this infinitely scrupulous concern with surveillance is
expressed in the architecture by innumerable petty mechanisms" (Foucault 1984, 191). These 'mechanisms' Foucault refers to here include the
unending tests, documentation and paper work that is carried out on students, patients, and military personnel, and it was through this that conclusions
were made on whether a person conformed to societal expectations or not. Furthermore, conclusions can then be made on a person's mental state,
guilt, educational level, military competence, and so on. This led Foucault to ask if "the disciplines have now become the new law of modern
society"? (Foucault 1984, 196). It is important to mention here that although Foucault viewed knowledge as controlling and stifling, he also saw it as
productive and useful, and thus he insists that "we must cease once and for all to describe the effects of power in negative terms: it "excludes", it
"represses", it "censors", it "abstracts", it "masks", it "conceals". In fact, power produces reality, domains of objects, and rituals of truth" (Foucault
1984, 204–205). What this means is that although power can be used as a tool by institutions as discussed above, it can also be used by individuals to

Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault Essay
Stability in terms of society can be defined as the state in which power is clear and defined, and the constituents abide to those in power. In modern
day institutions, a certain amount of stability must exist or people would lack the motivation to get work done and would not respond to authority. To
ensure motivation, employers will install cameras, or use other techniques to always keep an eye on their workers. If people are doing nothing wrong,
there is no reason to have a problem with being watched. For this reason, it is not surprising that employers set their work station similar to a Panopticon
, an institutional building that is step up with someone in the middle watching everyone, but the workers don't know if they are being...show more
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A select group of people, called syndics, would lock the doors from the outside, and make sure everyone was accounted for. However, despite the
rigidness of all these measures, they maintained stability and prevented the spread of the disease, and these measures came from the fear of the
authorities. The fear of the authorities comes from by the fear of the plague. In this society, the mechanisms against the plague is what created
discipline. This is a classic example of how a Panopticon can benefit society; when something needs to be accomplished, a Panopticon can force
people into doing whatever needs to get done. In this example, the Panopticon forces people to obey the rules of the village because they are afraid of
catching the plague. While this is not a traditional Panopticon institution, society decided that having the plague was abnormal, and it would do what it
took for society to become normal. In this story, power comes from the fear of the disease. All modern institutions, such as prisons, workplaces and
schools, supervise people using mechanisms that derive from the ones used in this story. In "Panopticism", Foucalt describes the architecture of a
Panopticon, and how it makes it so unique and efficient. A person in the middle is watching at all times, yet the people can never know if they are
being watched or not. Also, the prisoners cannot communicate with one another, which prevents the threat

Panopticism In Prisons
Michel Foucault, a famous philosopher, argued and defined 'panopticism' as this idea that being watched had a more successful impact on the actions
one would perform. However, panoptic methods usually involved architectural structures, such as watchtowers (Allen) that create a sense of being
watched. This method of monitoring, according to Foucault, was popular and most effective in prisons (193).

Panopticon Essay
The author of the essay "Panopticism", Michel Foucault gives his opinion on power and discipline in Panopticism. He describes Jeremy Bentham's
"Panopticon", a tower in the centre of a room which has vision to every cell, generalized for prisoners. In simple words, it functioned in maintaining
discipline throughout the jail. It's most distinctive feature was that; prisoners could be seen without ever seeing. Prisoners would never really know
when they are watched and when not. They are always under the impression that someone is keeping an eye on them continuously and if anything goes
wrong, or they make mistake, they would be punished severely. Since, a prisoner would never know when he/she is watched, they have to be at their
best. In a...show more content...
I can relate this to myself. I go to Harbor Point Gym. It is fairly huge with ample of machines and cardio equipments. There is another room for
people who wants to practice yoga and meditate. While working out at the gym, I am always guarded about myself being watched by other people,
peers passing by the gym, cameras at the gym etc. it's a human tendency and people really do look and analyze people. There's always a thought
running at the back of my mind what if other people saw me or made fun of me. This thought makes me behave in a right, well–mannered way. Nobody
forced me to behave in a certain way but it was that creepy thought of myself being mocked. I did not just behaved well but also pushed myself a little
extra. Also, there are treadmills kept closer to one another. This in turn makes one conscious about their selves. This helps me relate to the idea of
Foucault's Panopticon where he describes "Visibility as a trap"(). What he means by this is, being visible at times is also a trap. You can be caught
anytime if you are doing something incorrect. In my example of a treadmill, another person also using the treadmill watches you. You are constantly
conscious and try to look what the other person is up to and try to compete him/her. This generates a competitive spirit and thus, people push
themselves in order to prove their selves. It not only enhances your body but also aids in developing self–confidence.

Michel Foucault's Panopticism Essay
Within his essay titled "Panopticism," Michel Foucault discusses uses of power and discipline throughout different times in history. During the Plague
era, people were forced to follow cautionary measures created by the government. In the 19th century, prisoners were molded into model citizens
through no human contact and the fear of current observation. Finally, in present day, the tactics used within prisons can also be seen within schools,
hospitals and factories. When these ideas are connected to the lives of elite Crossfit athletes, they can show that having a sense of self–discipline is
beneficial. Mat Fraser, Katrin Davidsdottir and Annie Thorisdottir are three Crossfit athletes who show extreme levels of self–discipline and they are
...show more content...
"I'm not trying to squat 800 pounds. I'm trying to run a five–minute mile and squat 500 pounds" (Austin). Having this incredible mindset is not an easy
feat, it takes an amount of self–discipline that many do not have. The time where Mat's extreme self–discipline was most prevalent was when he was
unable to take the title of fittest man on earth in 2015. As many say, "second is the first to lose," and Mat takes this statement to heart. Between 2015
and 2016 was where Mat worked until he had no weaknesses. The discipline that he showed is why he earned the title of fittest man on earth in 2016.
This self–discipline was extremely beneficial to Mat and it could have also been beneficial to the European population during the Plague era. During
this time, the government was forced to surveil people in an attempt to keep the plague concentrated to only a small group of individuals. "At each of
the town gates there will be an observation post; at the end of the street sentinels" (Foucault 282). These tactics were harsh, but it did save many from
an unpleasant death. However, if the people during this time had had a sense of self–discipline, like Mat, they would have taken these necessary
precautions and the government would not

Michael Foucault Panopticism
Panopticism is a social theory created by French philosopher Michael Foucault. Foucault starts off by describing the actions took when the plague
broke out in the seventeen century. People had to leave their homes and belongings because they started a quarantine process. The plague is used as an
example to say where the idea of discipline came from. All new types of techniques and defense mechanisms were created. Foucault then starts to talk
about prisons and the prisoners inside of them. Foucault pretty much says that each individual can be seen, but can't communicate with anyone. The
panopticon is a prison with a big watch tower in the middle. It was built like this so the prisoners can be efficiently watched and guarded. The
prisoners every move was watched and monitored. This was another way of punishment because they weren't being punished physically, but mentally.
The prisoner's minds were being controlled, instead of their bodies. Foucault believes that modern society is the same way as the prison was run,
maybe not to the same extreme, though. Everything is run by the state like for example, schools, hospitals, police stations, jobs, and many more.
Foucault believes we can't escape the social norms. We...show more content...
I don't agree with when he says that we are "prisoners in our own bodies" because I believe we have so much freedoms in this country. I do
understand we our controlled by the state and government, but it's not like we can't do anything. Also, I agree with the fact that schools, hospitals,
and prisons are alike in ways of not looks, but the way they classify us as an individual. This idea is very interesting and complex because either side
cam have a strong argument on how either is wrong. I believe he is right because everything may be hard to believe because of how scary the truth is.
Reading this essay starts to get you thinking, "Am I really

Foucault's Panopticism
Michel Foucault and his passage "Panopticism" in his work Discipline and Punish expands upon the original ideas of Jeremy Bentham and the
Panopticon: a system of surveillance utilized on a group of individuals for which there may be many motives. Foucault relates the Panopticon to other
particular systems within the societal wheel and clarifies upon its power to not only individualize a person within pre–meditated constraints, but also to
observe, collect, modify, and impose, among a vast amount of other possibilities, in order to yield untampered results (Foucault 200–202). He builds up
the solidity of what he refers to as "the mechanism" in the objectified "tower" through which all power of the Panopticon lies; the location where the
observer...show more content...
Cyberbullying pertains to electronic forms of degrading and hurting a person, and James is able to utilize this to his advantage in tragically tearing
Taylor apart. She went from being an extremely happy and outgoing girl to a shell moving through the days trying to recover from the incidents
causing her to lose all of her friends but one, and the ruining of her life. The transition the Taylor undergoes during this time is drastic, but has an
interesting finality to it in that once she does discover who is responsible for causing her all of the pain, she has destroyed the Panopticon. As soon as
the head individual of the project is discerned, the subjected people break free of these invisible chains that bind them to their constant surveillance
(Foucault 200–202). Taylor herself discovers who this James that is tormenting and abusing her truly is not long after she recovers from the hospital
and both her and her mother begin their search for the culprit. In finding out who is mal–treating her so badly, she witnesses that not even everything
which is seen can be viewed for what the truth really is: Her closest friend Samantha is the "James" behind the ordeal all along. This torture method of
consistent and constant humiliation among peers is, in essence, associated with Foucault's analysis of the Panopticon's utilizations for such methods
among similar individuals; however, it also has a way of easily disguising the truth of the situation, which can be, with Cyberbully at least, even more

Michael Foucaults Panopticism
Society: Comparison to the Panopticon According to Wikepedia, a panopticon is a type of prison where the observer is able to watch the prisoners
without the prisoner knowing when they are being watched. The concept of the design is to allow an observer to observe (–opticon) all (pan–)
prisoners thereby conveying what one architect has called the "sentiment of an invisible omnisciece. The panopticon was invented by English
philosopher Jeremy Bentham in 1785. Bentham himself described the Panopticon as "a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind, in a quantity
hitherto without example." Michel Foucault, a French philosopher and historian of ideas uses this term in his book Discipline and Punish the Birth of
the Prison as a metaphor...show more content...
When we do something out of the norm, we are then frowned upon at as some type of threat to society. An example of this given is from the book
Tess of the Durbyvilles, the character Tess is living in a panopticon because her society is based in a time where she is suppose to have a husband,
but her society gossips about her because she has a baby out of wedlock. People looked at her as abnormal because she did not follow the moral
structure they are used to. No one bothered to ask any questions they only assumed she was different which is something they did not like. This
panopticon serves a good purpose even though it focuses soley on discipline and power. Although we are being watched everyday, if we did not
have discipline then our society would not function well, and we would be among murders, thieves, and would fear for our lives. We are among
criminals now but because we have institutions to tame them and force them to be a part of society or if they choose not to be then they are kept
away from the perfect society we are constantly trying to form and improve. Although we are under power of the panopticon, we are given a sense of
protection within our society and therefore we are willing to accept the control we are

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