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Discipline, Punishment, Panopticon TIME

Art Stud Definitions - Discipline, Punishment, Panopticon

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Powerpoint presentation on Michel Foucault's notion of discipline, punishment, and panopticon. Used for Art Stud 2 discussion with Prof Yambao.

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Discipline, Punishment, PanopticonTIMEDisciplineThe practice of training people to obey rules or a code of behavior, using punishment to correct disobedienceThe controlled behavior resulting from such trainingActivity that provides mental or physical trainingA system of rules of conductA branch of knowledge, typically one studied in higher educationPunishmentThe infliction or imposition of a penalty as retribution for an offenceThe penalty inflictedMichel Foucault Discipline and PunishWhere there is power, there is resistance.

...if you are not like everybody else, then you are abnormal, if you are abnormal , then you are sick. These three categories, not being like everybody else, not being normal and being sick are in fact very different but have been reduced to the same thing

It is the certainty of being punished and not the horrifying spectacle of public punishment that must discourage crime.

Two types of punishmentPre-modern system

Carceral system/ penal systemPanopticon (carceral system)A circular prison with cells arranged around a central well, from which prisoners could at all times be observed.

The Panopticon is a marvelous machine which, whatever use one may wish to put it to, produces homogeneous effects of power.By looking at the individuals in the prison, control is exercised over them

Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble prisons?

FlawsNot suited to any specific form of crime HomogenizedCan lead to disproportionate retribution

No direct effect on public (debatable)Idleness of convictsCostly; difficult to superviseCan be cause to tyranny (even by just the immediate authority watching over them)We are now far away from the country of tortures, dotted with wheels, gibbets, gallows, pillories; we are far, too, from that dream of the reformers, less than fifty years before.