What is the
major effect of Panopticon?
The major
effects of Panopticon is the automatic function of power.
How does the
architecture [institution] create and sustain a power relation independent of
the person who exercises it?
The architecture
of institutions sustains power in the inmates by been observed, and they don’t
know when they are been watched so they don’t know when they are needed to act
that way or not.
Read from P66 2nd
paragraph, in what way is the Panoptican efficient?
"The
efficiency of power, its constraining force have, in a sense, passed over to
the other side - to the side of it's surface of application"
How does the
Panopticism do the work of a natural [scientist]?
"It makes
it possible to draw up differences, among patients, to observe the symptoms of
each individual
In what ways
was the Panopticon a laboratory?
"But the
Panopticon was also a laboratory; it could be used a machine to carry out
experiments, to alter behaviour, to train or correct individuals"
List the conditions
in which Panopticism strengthens power?
‘it can reduce
the number of those who exercise it, while increasing the number of those on
whom it is exercised. Because it is possible to intervene at any moment and
because the constant pressure acts even before the offences, mistakes or crimes
have been committed. Because in these conditions its strength is that it never
intervenes, it is exercised spontaneously and without noise, it constitutes a
mechanism whose effects follow from one another. Because without any physical
instrument other than architecture and geometry, it acts directly on
individuals; it gives ‘power of mind over mind’.
According to
Julius (1831) how is the panoptic principle particularly useful in a society
made of private individuals and the state?
It is useful
because many people can be observed but not in a way that would make them go
mad.
Also
according to Julius, rather than suppress the individual, what effect does the
panoptic principle have?
'individual is
carefully fabricated'
