Public Arguments

Public Arguments

“Women,” [Laura Bates, the creator of the project says], “have been taught not to make a fuss about crude treatment and have learned to just put up with it.”

Public Arguments

Jeremy Bentham

“A building circular... The prisoners in their cells, occupying the circumference—The officers in the centre. By blinds and other contrivances, the Inspectors concealed... from the observation of the prisoners: hence the sentiment of a sort of omnipresence—The whole circuit reviewable with little, or... without any, change of place. One station in the inspection part affording the most perfect view of every cell."

Foucault• Michel Foucault took this philosophy as a

metaphor for modern “disciplinarity.”• Don’t need locks or chains to live in a Panopticon

– Schools, Religion, Santa Claus, technology, government, etc

• “Panopticism is one of the characteristic traits of our society. It's a type of power that is applied to individuals in the form of continuous individual supervision, in the form of control, punishment and compensation, and in the form of correction, that is, the molding and transformation of individuals in terms of certain norms. This threefold aspect of panopticism - supervision, control, correction - seems to be a fundamental and characteristic dimension of the power relations that exist in our society.”– Michel Foucault, (2000) [1981] 'Truth and juridical

forms '. In J. Faubion (ed.). Tr. Robert Hurley and others. Power The Essential Works of Michel Foucault 1954-1984. Volume Three. New York: New Press, p. 70.

Toobin and Zizek