Panopticon
Foucault's nationality
french
Foucault argues that power and ________ cannot be separated from each other; they are interlinked with each other
knowledge
Foucault thought schools, the military, and prisons were similar in structure: True/False
true
cause of Foucault's death
HIV/AIDS
A particular form of power that reinforces customs, habits, health, sexuality reproductive practices, family, "blood", and "well-being”.
Biopower/Biopolitics
Karl Marx
Foucault died in what year
1984
Foucault argued that societies has moved from punishment to ____
discipline
This trains us to act a certain way because we think we could be observed but don't know for sure.
Panopticon/panoptic power
How does the Panopticon work?
Although it is physically impossible for the single guard to observe all the inmates' cells at once, the fact that the prisoners cannot know when they are being watched means that they are motivated to act as though they are being watched at all times. Thus, the inmates are effectively compelled to regulate their own behavior.
Foucault focused on questions of:
power
Foucauldian method for excavating taken for-granted truths. In this approach, we interrogate how things come to be accepted as "truth" and how we create ourselves according to, or against, those truths.
Genealogy
According to Foucault, the rise of modern states saw the disappearance of _______ as the predominant form of punishment in society.
the spectacle
Foucault belonged to this school of philosophy
postmodernism
Subjects become self-regulating through the "gaze" and surveillance. The panopticon is one example of this technique of power.
discipline
What is significant about the decline of the public execution?
We no longer punish the physical body, we control the person. Instead of physical punishments or in addition to them, punishment works through surveillance, self-discipline. Warders, doctors, chaplains, psychiatrists and educationalists have taken over from the executioner.