Foucault Panopticism and Self-Surveillance: from Individuals to Dividuals

Published: Apr 21, 2020
Abstract
The paper analyses the concept of panopticism formulated in Foucault’s works and its possibilities of relevance in contemporary power and (self)surveillance studies. In the book “Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison”, Foucault, applying Jeremy Bentham’s idea of a panoptical prison, writes about the power of the sovereignty that is replaced by the society of discipline. Foucault discusses panopticism in order to unfold the concept of...
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Foucault Panopticism and Self-Surveillance: from Individuals to Dividuals
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Apr 21, 2020
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