After sharing my visual guide on how to cite GPT in APA, I got several requests for an MLA version. So here it is based ...

Israel has engineered what might best be called bio-necro-politics: a regime in which the technologies of life and death, ...

Banksy's new mural in Marseille is not the first image he has connected to the history of ideas. A Banksy expert reveals the philosophy behind these popular artworks.

In the Panopticon, inmates always know a guard could be watching but never if one truly is. This is the key to the prison's power, argued French philosopher Michel Foucault: it becomes omniscient ...

But being watched doesn’t just change our behavior; decades of research show it also infiltrates our mind to impact how we think. And now a new study reveals how being watched affects ...

The panopticon at Kilmainham Gaol is one of the most famous examples of a panopticon prison in the world. It was built in the early 19th century and was used to house prisoners during the Irish ...

2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the French publication of Michel Foucault’s dark masterpiece, Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. A book of vast historical scope, written with ...

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 ...

The connection between the 1857 rebellion, Kala Pani, Jeremy Bentham, British colonial excesses, and Michel Foucault’s ideas is a fantastic story indeed, simply beyond belief.

Michel Foucault, a French scholar in 1975, used the Panopticon model to argue that it induces a state of being watched all the time, (sic) “a state of conscious and permanent visibility that ...