Context of Practice // Panopticon and Panopticism

What is Panopticism?

Social Control - Productivity

Self Control/ Self regulation

Training
Institutional Power

• Hospitals
• Schools
• Army
• Police
• Prison
• Churches
• Government
• Marriage
• Big Businesses
• Family 
• Media

Bring in Institutional experts 

A code of behavior being written for each individual institution to allow control, power and observation over society.

The Panopticon - Jeremy Bentham -1791 - designed as a philosophical idea around behavior

• A space of visibility
• Power is unverifiable
• Individuality
• Isolation - causes a person to have nothing to compare their life / situation to, which makes the person believe that the life they are living is 'normal'
• Psychological effect
• Lateral invisibility/ Centralization - side to side nothing can be seen
• Axial Visibility - everything can be seen from the center
• Self-monitoring
• Self-correcting
• Light 
• Surveillance (constant)

Panopticism - Modern disciplinary society based around the effects that the Panopticon would have on an individual - Docile Bodies

'Power is a relationship' - 

'Like they don't like the medicine but they know it's good for them.'