Essays Tagged: "Panopticon"

Panopticon, Looks at the positive aspects of a panopticon

Panopticon: The Ideal Social Order'The Panopticon is a marvelous machine which, whatever use one may ... nitored by someone else. It is for this reason that this disciplinary mechanism is so effective.The Panopticon serves as a tool for discipline and a laboratory of power. The capabilities of a Panoptic ... iety by other organizations . Whether it be the police, the IRA, or a neighborhood watch group. The Panopticon can serve the public in many ways. It can defend a country, reform prisoners, treat the i ...

(7 pages) 82 0 3.0 Jan/1996

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy

Opinionated essay about Michel Foucault's essay "panopticism"

PanopticismMichel Foucault, in his essay Panopticism, talks about how the panopticon is a mechanism of power. But what I wonder is this: Is it the panopticon that holds the p ... on that holds the power or is it just the fear of being watched that really is holding the power? A panopticon was originally a prison that is constructed so that prisoners can be seen at all times bu ... oners can be seen at all times but the guards can not. Foucault, however, discusses how the idea of panopticons are used at all levels of society, everything from schools, asylums, hospitals, and barr ...

(4 pages) 146 0 2.2 Apr/2003

Subjects: Humanities Essays

This essay is about how the concept of the "social construction of reality" is incorrect because of women and elderly athlete participation.

he public focuses on the sporting icons. Docile bodies are being created through the concept of the Panopticon, also referred to as "the eye of power" concept (Foucault). By definition, a docile body ... er is a feeling of being omnipotent. This paper will use theories derived from Michel Foucault, the Panopticon, to discuss how sport and popular culture is producing docile bodies.Foucault studied the ...

(5 pages) 94 0 4.0 Oct/2003

Subjects: Social Science Essays > Sociology

Michel Foucault

. (related to discourse of language)The Gaze: Foucalt compares modern society with Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon:The Panopticon is a survellience machine used in prisons to create the discourse of power ...

(3 pages) 178 1 4.2 Jul/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Artists

"Panopticism" by Michel Foucault

t of power where it underlies the main idea of separation as one of the many forms of forces in the Panopticon.The effects of surveillance are clearly discussed in Foucault's essay. The infected popul ... abnormal beings brings into play the disciplinary mechanisms created by the fear of the plague.The Panopticon, is a prison that is "a machine for dissociating the see/being seen dyad: in the peripher ...

(4 pages) 107 0 5.0 Mar/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Michel Foucault and Walker Percy: Loss Power In Michel Foucault’s

taken over and turned into a 'prison' by the government because of the plague. He also talks about Panopticon, a prison where people were held in cells and basically 'controlled' by a man in a tower. ... ssay he argues that power of the people to be true individualist is lost in the plague town and the Panopticon he talks about how leper and plague victims were subjected to, 'strict spatial partitioni ...

(2 pages) 2376 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Health & Medicine > Diseases

Panopticism and Society Today

ces.The panoptic idea was started by Jeremy Betham, who is a famous architect that created original panopticon. This idea is a particular layout of a prison that was exceptionally well thought out. A ... ic machine that watched others. People are self-governing.There are many modern day examples of the panopticon. Recently while watching Matrix, I found it very interesting comparing how closely it rel ...

(5 pages) 56 0 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis