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Book Reviews. Foucault in the Panopticon How Michel Foucault's encounters in Poland's heavily policed gay community informed his ideas. Geoff Shullenberger | From the December 2021 issue ...
The leap into wider circulation came in the wake of Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1975). Besides acknowledging the panopticon’s significance in the history of ...
All was not lost, however. For in 1978 the French philosopher Michel Foucault revived interest in the panopticon idea with the latter’s publication of Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison.
Panopticism is a form of imprisonment via surveillance theorized by Michel Foucault in reference to Jeremy Bentham’s eighteenth century architectural prison system, the panopticon. Bentham’s ...
In the 1970s, the French philosopher Michel Foucault criticised the panopticon as inducing in prisoners "a state of conscious and permanent visibility that assures the automatic functioning of power".
Giving Bentham’s panopticon steroids, 20th century psychologist and Philosopher Michel Foucault used the panopticon to explain how discipline and punishment operate in society, ...
Jaylen Brown has gone viral this week, not for his athleticism but his intellect. A clip of Brown giving a lecture breaking down Michel Foucault‘s philosophy currently has over a million views ...
In the 1970s, the French philosopher Michel Foucault criticised the panopticon as inducing in prisoners "a state of conscious and permanent visibility that assures the automatic functioning of power".