The Panopticon: And the Panoptic Society
摘要
The French post-structural scholar, Michel Foucault, somewhat iconically in the social sciences and humanities, used the metaphor of the panopticon to describe arrangements of power in modern society. Foucault’s contribution to academics involved constructing a theoretical history of power relations, or more specifically for this chapter, how modern arrangements of disciplinary power, of which the panopticon played a completing part, produced the body. In this chapter, I explain why and how power arrangements targeting the body changed, the critiques to Foucault’s theorizing, before analyzing what I believe to be the exciting potentials for disciplinary-panoptic awareness.