A new reader of Discipline and Punish asked me if we should interpret
Foucault's concept of the panopticon as one of a totalitarian police state
of terrorized slaves? I told the reader (a friend of mine) that it Foucault
did not suggest such but meant a society where people reform themselves,
correct themselves, teach themselves, a diagram of power that sought to
induce a certain relation of human beings to themselves as Nikolas Rose
describes it.
Would you find my summation accurate? Or is there more to panopticism that I
could explain?
--
Chetan Vemuri
West Des Moines, IA
aryavartacnsrn@xxxxxxxxx
(515)-418-2771
"You say you want a Revolution! Well you know, we all want to change the
world"
Foucault's concept of the panopticon as one of a totalitarian police state
of terrorized slaves? I told the reader (a friend of mine) that it Foucault
did not suggest such but meant a society where people reform themselves,
correct themselves, teach themselves, a diagram of power that sought to
induce a certain relation of human beings to themselves as Nikolas Rose
describes it.
Would you find my summation accurate? Or is there more to panopticism that I
could explain?
--
Chetan Vemuri
West Des Moines, IA
aryavartacnsrn@xxxxxxxxx
(515)-418-2771
"You say you want a Revolution! Well you know, we all want to change the
world"