Panopticism
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This essay brings together two names that will perhaps surprise most readers. Bentham: the liberal Englishman who ‘spoke in sober sadness’, schooled in Hume and Locke, always at it with his intellect’s razor. Steiner: the wild and weird,... more
The Trojan Hose Affair scandal alleged that there was a hardline extremist Islamism plot to take over British state schools in Birmingham. While commu- nity groups and government officials battled to take control of the narrative, the... more
Taking Octavia Butler’s Patternist series as its primary source of inquiry, this paper examines the ontology of power, intersubjectivity, and social reality through the science and speculative fiction tropes of body-swapping and... more
In the years following the attacks on September 11th, 2001, the American government and other governmental democracies who fall victim to Americentric hegemony have eroded away many of the rights and civil liberties enjoyed by their... more
„Total institutions/disciplinary institutions. Presence, Surveillance and Panopticism, with Erving Goffman and Michel Foucault”, în Euresis, no. 1-4 / 2011 (Le concept du présence / The Concept of Presence), ISSN 1223-1193, p. 91-95
The advances in contemporary surveillance techniques have, for the past three decades, been bound with the development of cheap and efficient computational machines. These rapid changes in new media have made the task of theorising... more
Ralph Ellison's acclaimed novel and his sole masterpiece, Invisible Man, is said to have been one of the world's greatest African-American novels. It is replete with discussions of racial discrimination, identity crisis and studies of... more
These banners and flags along with containers and barricades guarded with policemen do effect the passers as it “exhibits” and reinforces the idea of who is in power and that the citizens are entering the area of those who are powerful... more
The Urban Surveillance of Hypebeast and todays fashion through a Foucauldian lens It's not much to be in need of a shirt for some miscellaneous reason, and out of desperation grab the cheapest tee-shirt in Wal-Mart. Now redirect this... more
Este libro surge de la tensión entre visiones esperanzadas que consideran que los espacios cibernéticos propician nuevas temáticas, estrategias y prácticas para los movimientos sociales contemporáneos, y visiones pesimistas que, ante la... more
Celem autora jest ustalenie, kto lub co steruje procesami społecznymi pozostającymi w bezpośrednim związku z funkcjonowaniem globalnej sieci teleinformatycznej. Jakie są źródła tego sterowania, jego formy, skuteczność i zakres. W... more
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Women's Studies on 25th March 2019, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/00497878.2019.1580520
The concept of panoptic has based on the prison model called as "Panopticon" designed by Jeremy Bentham, English philosophy and social theorist, in 1785. In this prison model based on the principle of checking and tracking all movements... more
Frederick Douglass describes vividly how his socio-political identity was scripted by the white other and how his spatio-temporal existence was constrained through constant surveillance and disciplinary dispositifs. Even so, Douglass was... more
The following paper explores the way transparency is used and applied, on a performative and symbolic level, as (1) a device for managing the establishment of sociocultural norms and values and (2) an expedient for understanding the... more
In: Marco Antônio Sousa Alves; Márcio Rimet Nobre. (Org.). A sociedade da informação em questão: do direito, o poder e o sujeito na contemporaneidade. 1ed.Belo Horizonte: D'Plácido, 2019, v. , p. 47-70.
This paper questions the use of new technologies as tools of modern surveillance in order to: (a) advance the research done by Michel Foucault on panoptic techniques of surveillance and dominance; and (b) give new insights on the way we... more
La science-fiction a une tradition ancienne de contre-utopie et de critique sociale, montrant et dénonçant l’emprise d’un système politique sur les corps et les esprits, comme dans Brave New World d’A. Huxley ou 1984 de G. Orwell, chacun... more
With the growing problems of human congestion and hygiene in the biggest European capitals during the early phases of the industrial revolution, new means of control had to be established, that allowed to handle big amounts of people for... more
Ausstellungskatalog zur gleichnamigen Ausstellung für die Kunstbibliothek im Museum für Fotografie Berlin Exhibition catalogue to the exhibition curated for for the Kunstbibliothek at the Museum für Fotografie Berlin Überwachung ist... more
Biri Bizi Gözetliyor: Küresel çağ bu sözü hayatın her alanında bir gerçekliğe dönüştürüyor. İletişim teknolojilerindeki gelişmeler gözün iktidarını pekiştirirken, gündelik hayatın her alanına yaygın bir totaliterizm ile özgürlük alanı... more
Relying on Foucault's theoretical differentiation of three derived management models reflecting the historical and political response to the emergence of three infectious diseases, namely leprosy, the plague and smallpox, this paper will... more
Michel Foucault is one of the most prominent philosophers of the twentieth century. His work has been used in academic disciplines across the board. His approaches to power should not be seen as one overarching theory, but as a plethora... more
This study analyze the cultural construction by marketplace actors (market research and advertising agencies, brands, consumer magazines) of the metrosexual, and its impact on men's lives. Through an interpretive research design based on... more
The objective of this paper is to revisit the metaphor of the Panopticon, borrowed by Michel Foucault from Jeremy Bentham to describe the development of disciplinary institutions in Western societies from the early nineteenth century, and... more
This article argues that the use of sexual infiltration by police and criminal collaborators represents a strategic deployment of surveillance technology by the state with the aim of creating Foucault’s “docile bodies” through the... more
Frantz Fanon offers a lucid account of his entrance into the white world where the weightiness of the ‘white gaze’ nearly crushed him. In chapter five of Black Skins, White Masks, he develops his historico-racial and epidermal racial... more
Abstract The dissertation straddles the interface of mass media, social engineering and advertising in 1930s Stockholm. Its twofold objective is firstly to outline their cultural output, targeting predominantly feminine audiences.... more
(Disclaimer: This paper has been published in Talisik: An Undergraduate Journal of Philosophy, Volume 5 on August 2018) The emergence of social media platforms has brought about various changes in humankind's lived worlds. These... more
Pada jurnal ini, penulis akan mengantarkan pada sebuah diskursus gejala sosial yang memiliki signifikansi terhadap kondisi sistem internasional. Konstelasi stabilitas global dipengaruhi oleh globalisasi yang kian bertransformasi. Pada... more
This essay, revised from an original version that appeared in 2000, reconstructs the genealogy of the Panopticon, which since the work of Michel Foucault has been associated with modern regimes of control, as a model of contemporary... more
As it plays out in Ishiguro's novel, The Remains of the Day, the social requirement for servants to carry out their duties unseen by anyone imprints upon the identity formation of the workers. This process operates through the denial of... more
Talks about the reality that exists in prison based on a brief analysis of Shawshank Redemption and Foucault's Panopticism.
A partir de la Modernidad, con el avance de los dispositivos disciplinares del biopoder, se conforman dinámicas de subjetivación que explotan la dimensión de la visibilidad como herramienta de control. Luego de que Foucault... more
Este artigo é dedicado aos Estudos de Vigilância e à sua aplicação à obra de Tolkien, Senhor dos Anéis. Nesta análise, é feita uma introdução histórica aos Estudos de Vigilância, uma contextualização histórica e social do autor,... more
Objective – Crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED) is a crime prevention philosophy based on the theory that proper design and effective use of the built environment can lead to a reduction in the fear and incidence of... more