Madness and Civilisation
-''The Great Confinement'' (late 1600's), houses of correstion, to curb unemplyoment and idleness
-those considered useless were confined in these and made to work
-as a way of improvement, morals
-ciminals, mad, tramps, single and pregnant, lazy
-repressed deviants from society
-didn't improve because they all corrupted eachother
-physical/mental control - subtle
Guy Fawkes
Discipline and Punishment
-Panopticism
-discipline - is a technology, a way of controlling conduct - surveillance
-Panoptic Prison - round prison with institutional gaze
-Panopticon internalises in the individual the conscious state that he is always being watched
-self regulation of their behaviour
-automatic function of power
-laboratory to meaure behaviour - allows scrutinise
-allows supervisors to experiment on subjects
-places like office's have 'panotic' layouts - make workers think they are always being watched by the boss
-adopt their behaviour to how they think they should be behaving
-Panoptisicm is everywhere
-google maps - cameras
-constant surveillance causes us to change how we act
-Pentonville Prison
-Files, registers
Relationship between power, knowledge and the body
-Disciplinary society produces what foucalt calls 'docile bodies'
-Nazi Sport event - cult of health
-TV causes docility - being controlled/passive
Foucalt and Power
-his definition is not a top-down model as with Marxism
-Power is not a thing or a capacity people have, it is a relation between different individual and groups, and it only exists when it is being exercised.
-the exercise of power relies on there being the capacity for power to be resisted
-where there is power there is resistance
-Facebook - surveillance
Bruce Nauman - video corridor pieces
Chris Burden - Samson (1985)
Summary:
-Michael Foucalt
-Panopticism as a form of discipline
-Techniques of the body
-Docile bodies
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