Michel Foucault · Philosophy
In <em>Discipline and Punish</em>, Foucault traces how punishment moved from the spectacular torture of the body to the quiet, constant surveillance of the soul. His emblem is Bentham’s Panopticon: a prison designed so that inmates, never knowing when they are watched, end up watching themselves - the model of how modern power makes us discipline ourselves.
You learned that for Foucault, modern power shifted from punishing the body in public spectacle to disciplining the soul through surveillance, with Bentham’s Panopticon as its diagram: visible but unverifiable observation that makes the watched internalize the watcher. Explain how disciplinary power produces &ls…
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