-Panopticism - JEREMY BETHAM 1791.
- Physiological effect of the building is to include the idea that you are being watched, and therefore you behave in a way as if you were being watched.
- most loony asylum use the panopticism as architectural reference.
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Key features to make the panopticon work.
- isolation - Your mind starts messing with itself
- You have no other point of referance.
- Incisability/visability - the person must think that they are in view, however the person doing the viewing must never be viewed - the person doing the viewing is never truely visable but always reminded that he is around.
- Light, bright, airy spaces.
- Productivity - the panopticon forces being to work harder, learn faster, get better quicker or inform peoples behaviours efficiently.
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Docile body. [a docile body is defined by Michel Foucault -
"one that may be subjected, used, transformed, and improved. and that this docile body can only be achieved through strict regiment of disciplinary acts"]
- More productive- Obidient
- Self regulate - self train
Docile bodies are produced by a disciplinary society.
Physical control -----> mental control.
POWER - Foucault says; 'theres no power without resistance.'
'Power is a relationship between people'
[Person A <-----> person B] - a relationship that works in both ways
- Authority over resistance.
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Examples of PANOPTICISM in the 21st century.
- CCTV - Load of visual reminders that you are being recorded even though most of them are not in operation.
- OPEN PLAN OFFICE - The though of your manager being able to see what you're doing or walk past at any time makes you more productive.
- SOCIAL NETWORKING - you are constantly visible to the world.
- ADVERTS AND MEDIA - perfect bodies, perfect lives are constantly being thrown at us, how to live our lives, makes people think on a different way and act upon it by buying the product.
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