What Foucault says is simple but he complicates it by analysing it and then analysing it again.

Panoptic Prisons

"perfectly individualised and consistently visible"

Small isolated cages (very controlling)

"to enclose, to deprive of light and to hide"

eliminates other people to think it safe to be watched. But its a trap.

"There is no copying, no noise, no chatter, no waste of time."

"one is totally seen, without ever seeing."

"An inspector arriving unexpectedly at the centre of the Panopticon will be able to judge at a glance"

The supervisor can be supervised

Task 1

The Panoptic prison was the first building to make people change their attitude, as a guard would sit in the middle of a large circled room where the prisoners were kept in individual cells, concealed from others where none could see the guards or the other prisoners but the guards could see every one of the cells.This made people self regulate but was see as a form of torture.

Facebook is panoptic because everybody can see what you post, personal things like where you live and who you are related to and you can get onto peoples pictures etc. Also, when you do upload photos, they no longer belong to you but Facebook network has copyright over them. The panoptic view is that people know they are looking at there profile so they change their ways of what they write and what photos they upload.

"perfectly individualised and consistently visible"

Small isolated cages (very controlling)

"to enclose, to deprive of light and to hide"

eliminates other people to think it safe to be watched. But its a trap.

"There is no copying, no noise, no chatter, no waste of time."

"one is totally seen, without ever seeing."

"An inspector arriving unexpectedly at the centre of the Panopticon will be able to judge at a glance"

The supervisor can be supervised

Prison Tags
modern society panoticism

"The surveillance is based on a system of permanent registration."

"Each actor is alone, perfectly individualised and constantly visible."

"The inmate must never know whether he is being looked at at any one moment."

"An inspector arriving unexpectedly will be able to judge at a glance."

"The panoptican presents a cruel, ingenious cage."