[The "reformatory" of Mettray, north of Tours, France] [Continues "The Panoptic Society (of Surveillance)"] Despite (modal/technological) changes in the way that power is exercised—despite, that is to say, the (systemic/structural) change in the regime of power—one function/element remains central to society: namely, penality. This is true even of the panoptic society (of surveillance). The disciplinary…
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[The interior of Stateville Penitentiary in Joliet, IL, USA; Image from Superstock] [Continues "Individuality of Disciplinary Power"] The (intensive) Panopticon provided (the virtual modality of) disciplinary power an individualized mode of its exercise. In its efficiency and effectiveness—as is especially apparent in its adroit mechanisms (of normalization), (machinic) automation, and perfectibility—this particular manner in which…
[Jeremy Bentham's prison design, the Panopticon] [Continues "The Art of Discipline"] (The exercise of) Disciplinary power transformed the regime of power, redistributed, as Foucault puts it, the “entire economy” of punishment and surveillance by which power is exercised (by the State in managing/controlling the social). In the process, (through its ways) a machine is constructed—a…
