Based on the premise of the panopticon
Contemporary society is structured differently from the society that preceded us
Effects with regard to the power of the individual and the control of government
Most influential work, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Transition from what he terms;
A "culture of spectacle" where punishment was inflicted on the body in public displays of torture, dismemberment, and obliteration to;
A "carceral culture." whereas punishment and discipline become internalized and directed to the constitution and, when necessary, rehabilitation of social subjects
Presently we have a culture in which the panoptic model of surveillance has been diffused as a principle of social organization, affecting such disparate things as the university classroom, urban planning, hospital and factory architecture and so on
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