Power of groups that over power over other groups.
Physical institution condition our thoughts and behaviours make some people succeed and don't.
Our thoughts ideas are influenced by the society.
Disposing to control and to shape us.
Essay- start of with history and build upwards.
Who ever was confirmed useless was punished and locked up and then was forced house of correction-to work in production work. If you didn't work in the house of correction you was beaten until you worked. The birth of the asylum, hospital, the prison to direct to a certain group of people. The asylum operated on a different disopling, the used different techniques to control the insane. The inmates was infantised, they was treated like children, by reworded when behaving in correctly.
With the birth of infatuation came the birth of forms of knowledge of special. Biology, psychiatry,medical, etc.
They all sure in one way or another, to teach us to control our selfs.
In pre modern times, were we had a King, the goal of punishment wasn't to control or to train, the goal of punishment was to be grizzly... If people could see the punishment, this is what happens to you when you don't behave. To show the power of the King. The control of the King over your body.
The modern society use more mental methods of discipline,
Panopticon - Jeremy Bentham
Was a design for a building. A multifunctional space, a hospital, prison, asylum or a uni. A place were individuals would be kept. Have been used today as prisons
London Tate gallery was once a prison ground- cube prison, institutional gaze,
Because of the lay out and design the cells are designed to only be. Able to see the watch tower at the middle. The view of the controller.
In the panopticon you are been watched and every move is been recorded.
The panopticon internalises in the individual the conscious state that he is always being watched. After a while of been watched you will conform and create self regulation.
- reforms prisoners
- Helps treats patients
- Helps instruct schoolchildren
- Helps confine but also study the insane
- Helps supervise workers
They was so effective that actually after a while you don't need a supervisor for the panopticon to work.
This is how our society organises the knowledge, it's power, it's surveillance of bodies and it's training of bodies.
This method is used today, call centres and office space are now more open plan and are visible to the boss, makes them scare not to work because they are more on display. Even pubs with open design and having the bar tender on view at all time. Feel soulless because there open spaced and your always on display. We live in a cctv way. Not just about watching it's about recording the behaviour.
The cult o the gym, you could figure the cult of health as the panopticon method. Punish your self, train your self to perfection. Been told how to eat and what to eat and hat is healthy for you.is it to make you healthier to make you work longer because of the work retirement age.
Facebook the most panopticon place ever evidence of today. Allows you to watch and be watched by others, can't really be your self on this its all about making an image of what you think others want to see you as.
Somthing to our day to day were we are watching to or video games were it shows what it is to be a man or woman or healthy or a successful life. These are not our thoughts these are chosen for us.
The excercise of power relies on there being the capacity for the power to resisted.
Where there is power the is resistance.
Power actually trains us in the way that poeple expect of us, even though it's a mental prosess. Is courses us to self monitoring, self correction obedient bodied (docile bodies )
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