Panopticon
No. Not the surveillance panopticon, but the political power and human behavior panopticon
Panopticon
Generally speaking, all the authorities exercising individual control function according to a double mode; that of binary division and branding (mad/sane; dangerous/harmless; normal/abnormal); and that of coercive assignment of differential distribution (who he is; where he must be; how he is to be characterized; how he is to be recognized; how a
... See moreproject the subtle segmentations of discipline onto the confused space of internment, combine it with the methods of analytical distribution proper to power, individualize the excluded, but use procedures of individualization to mark exclusion — this is what was operated regularly by disciplinary power from the beginning of the nineteenth century
If the “State is the monopoly on violence,” as Max Weber once defined it, then the surveillance state (or surveillance capital) is the monopoly on identity. In this time of rising surveillance capitalism, entrenched surveillance states and, more recently, the plutocracy of blockchain networks, this monopoly has never been more important to break.... See more
Divya Siddarth • An Internet for Humans: Proof-of-Personhood Explained
They point to a future where states could use multiple forms of observation—feedback from citizens’ lived experience; data from sensors or satellites; citizen-generated data; and ‘sousveillance’, or surveillance from the bottom up rather than the top down—and then organise the data received as a commons, open to anyone. That vision would require a
... See moreGeoff Mulgan • Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
what’s dystopian always involves surveillance and monetization, what’s utopian is unmonetized and unsurveilled.
Gordon Glasgow • 12 Questions for Jia Tolentino
The Work of Art in the Age of Surveillance Capitalism
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Bentham’s Panopticon is the architectural figure of this composition. We know the principle on which it was based: at the periphery, an annular building; at the centre, a tower; this tower is pierced with wide windows that open onto the inner side of the ring; the peripheric building is divided into cells, each of which extends
... See moreFoucault's point is rather that, at least for the study of human beings, the goals of power and the goals of knowledge cannot be separated: in knowing we control and in controlling we know.
https://plato.stanford.edu/archivES/FALL2017/Entries/foucault/
Foucault particularly emphasizes how such reform also becomes a vehicle of more effective control: “to punish less, perhaps; but certainly to punish better”. He further argues that the new mode of punishment becomes the model for control of an entire society, with factories, hospitals, and schools modeled on the modern prison.