Foucault: Discipline & Punish *Remember: Foucault is critiquing philosopies that emerged during the industrial revolution & enlightenment periods about social organization. He is commenting on HOW power works, which he finds problematic….
Building upon Bentham… How discourse of the classical period fosters social control… Pan = all Optic = seeing Foucault explores HOW the state came to claim greater control over and enforcement of the private aspects of it’s citizens lives.
Power… Concept of Governmentality Non-humanist Power operates through institutions Dispersed Exercised through ritual & normalization Does not matter who operates the machines - Bentham
Docile Bodies: Partition of Time & Space
Docile Bodies: Exercising Power Are citizens whose moral behaviour may be subjected or transformed ( open to ‘improvement’), which can only be achieved through strict regiment of disciplinary acts.
Docile Bodies: Exercising Power Uninterrupted Cohesion Examination Testing Assessment & Measurement Normal / Natural
Normal /Natural Bodies/Behaviour
Effects of Power Internalization of rules and regulations Surveillance & Technological encroachment Creation of Experts Criminology….
Critiques Historical revisionism Non-Humanist position