Lecture 5: Foucalt Deepening Discipline

Question 1

significance of plague movement

Answer 1

shows the beginning of an organization of hierarchal management

people were sick and thjeir needed to be info on who was sicl and where they are; geographical constitution of control was required.

• rigid implementation of rules
• surveillance
• segmentation of the population
• precise distribution of the population in space and time

Question 2

What is panopticon

Answer 2

type of prison architecture; some key elements are:

• constant visibility (mutual but also uncertainty on whether they are being watched or not)
• tower in the middle

Question 3

What does panoptic control entail?

Answer 3

1. Making people constantly visible “visibility is a trap”
2. Individualization: no lateral lines of site; everyone is seen individually; in their own cells and cannot talk to each other
3. organization of power is depersonalized: anyone can take the job of the security guard (differs from feudalism)
4. power is visible and unverifiable|
5. according to foofoo, power is “continuous” and “permanent”

why cont and permanent

Question 4

Disciplined workplace visibility

Answer 4

we see in workplace nowadays