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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 ...
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".
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 ...
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.
'Panopticon' is a coming-of-age story about a young man floundering to find himself in the absence of any meaningful parental authority. How François Truffaut’s '400 Blows' Inspired 'Panopticon ...
And it all started with an 18th century prison design, popularised as a metaphor for our surveillance society by French philosopher Michel Foucault. That old prison concept has deeply infiltrated ...
Giving Bentham’s panopticon steroids, 20th century psychologist and Philosopher Michel Foucault used the panopticon to explain how discipline and punishment operate in society, ...
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".