Foucault: Discipline & Punish

*Remember: Foucault is critiquing philosopies that emerged during the industrial revolution & enlightenment periods about

social organization.

He is commenting on HOW power works, which he finds problematic….

Building upon Bentham…

How discourse of the classical period fosters social control…

Pan = all

Optic = seeing

Foucault explores HOW the state came to claim greater control over and enforcement of the private aspects of it’s citizens lives.

Power…

Concept of Governmentality

•Non-humanist•Power operates through institutions•Dispersed •Exercised through ritual & normalization•Does not matter who operates the machines - Bentham

Docile Bodies: Partition of Time & Space

Docile Bodies: Exercising Power

Are citizens whose moral behaviour may be subjected or transformed ( open to ‘improvement’), which can only be achieved through strict regiment of disciplinary acts.

Docile Bodies: Exercising Power

Uninterrupted Cohesion

Examination

Testing

Assessment & Measurement

Normal / Natural

Normal /Natural Bodies/Behaviour

Effects of Power

Internalization of rules and regulations

Surveillance & Technological encroachment

Creation of Experts•Criminology….

Critiques

• Historical revisionism

• Non-Humanist position