Essays on Panopticism

Punishment has always been a method to show the dominance of the powerful over the weak. But punishment is not complete without surveillance. So a question automatically arises, what is surveillance? Surveillance is like a regulation, a constant power working over each and every person,...

The panopticon is a conceptual prison that was created by Jeremy Bentham in 1785. The main idea of this prison was that the guards would be able to view and monitor all prisoner activity from one location. In this prison, a tower was placed in...

Algorithmic surveillance and post-panopticism are considered as the main means of surveillance used today. Recognized more commonly as surveillance as biopower, but for the purpose of this paper we will focus particularly on gamification and how it plays a part in algorithmic surveillance, and simulation...

In the article “Panopticism in discipline and punish,” by Foucault Michael. The author objective was to help really emphasize on this idea of that you were constantly being observed. He utilized the term Panopticism which gleaned from this prison idea the panoptikum. Where detainees were...

Panopticism The Panopticon is Bentham’s architectural model of a potential prison. This model includes a large watchtower in the middle of a cylinder shaped tower of cells. Each cell is back lit by windows on the outside of the prison as well as clearly visible...

A panopticon can be used in order to effectively keep surveillance of society. This, in all of its senses, is manipulative and coercive. As society started growing, it kept getting more difficult to control the people, and therefore, other resources or mechanisms had to be...