The panopticon automatically collects information about subjects. It is its reason for existence; to observe and collect information. Light, gaze, collection of individualising and normalising information. The surveillance of a specific blog is not automatic. An institution must make some form of assumption about sovereignty over that which is potentially contained within any and all [...]
Green provides a refreshing view of the democratisation of surveillance technologies showing that, since Foucault’s Panopticism, surveillance has become a two way effect of power that runs in and on multiple dimensions through society. On an initial reading the article is both a useful critique and a worthwhile advance on the “docile bodies” envisioned by [...]
Boyne provides a significant critique to Foucault’s Panopticism but concludes that the model requires some adjustment rather than being discarded. Worth a more thorough read. Boyne, R. (2000). Post-Panopticism. Economy & Society, 29(2), 285-307. Retrieved June 9, 2008, from EBSCO Host database.
Article posits that panopticism is used in business via meetings and management by objectives which keep employees under constant surveillance. It sounds more like Postscripts than Panoptics too me. Akella, D. (2008). A Question of Power: How does Management Retain It? Vikalpa: The Journal for Decision Makers, 28(3), 45-56. Retrieved June 8, 2008, from Ebsco [...]
In applying Foucault’s concept of Panopticism to the surveillance of personal blogs I will use Deleuze’s critique found in Postscripts. I should also use Foucault’s own critique based on his development of the concept of pastoral power as set out in Subjectivity and Power. Pastoral power is much more modular and smooth then the exercise [...]
I’m currently reading The Electronic Eye by David Lyon, in particular chapter 4 addressing the matter of panopticism and surveillance. The question Lyon Poses is this: can panopticism be applied as a generalisable concept across a variety of sociological environments? (p. 72) Lyon’s question urges the reader to consider the possibility that Foucault’s theory of [...]
De Landa proposes the concept of the Panspectron (p. 206). Whilst referring to Bentham’s Panopticon, which is he points out, a powerful tool for political and societal control through the perception of continuous surveillance, he suggest the Panspectron gathers all the available information about all subjects all of the time. Through a systems of filters [...]
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