surveillance

panopticon

regarding: 
Discipline and Punish

195-97: response to a plague by shutting an entire city down.

197: "this enclosed, segmented space... all constitutes a disciplinary mechanism."

198: "political dream: divisions, penetration of regulation into the smallest details."

comparison to leper colony and rituals of exclusion. not a binary separation ("good" vs. "bad", "infected" vs. "uninfected") use of multiple separations from each other. these individualizations are an intensification of power.

pure community vs. disciplined society--> two ways of exercising power over men, controlling relations, separating dangerous mixtures.

198-199: "rights and laws vs. perfect disciplines functioning..."

200: description of panopticon (prisoners are always the object of information, never the subject.)

201: not necessary to always observe. just make prisoners think they're always being observed.

203: experiments on the observed.

204: "knowledge follows the advances of power, discovering new objects of knowledge."

205: application of the panopticon model to other things (factories, schools, etc.)

209: panopticonism-- "discipline mechanisms: a functional mechanism that improves the exercise of power"

extension of disciplinary institutions.
210: 1/ inversion of discipline from minimizing negatives to maximizing positives.

211: 2/ swarming of mechanisms: beyond the walls of the institutions.

213: 3/ state control of mechanisms (from private religions to governments) and the minuteness of the controls.

215: "discipline is a type of power."

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