JAV200H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Panopticism, Panopticons, Ideal Type
21 Feb 2018
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Economy and society 29 (2): 285-307. doi:10. 1080/030851400360505. http://resolver. scholarsportal. info/resolve/03085147/v29i0002/2. Theoretical arguments in favour of abandoning the concept of the panopticon (from bauman, Panoptical impulse is not fading away, and that developments in screening and surveillance require the retention of the panopticon as an analytical ideal type. Argues that it was quite appropriate for armies of workers shaped by policing now inappropriate in societies shaped by consumption and enjoyment imperative. Applicable only within a clockwork" society, whose inhabitants are required to have fixed places, functions and appetites. Baunamn"s view, panopticon seen as a diagram of a mechanism of power reduced to its ideal form. Panoptical gaze is no longer in the middle but has moved to the edges - surveillance is no longer conveyed by the. Prime function of surveillance in the contemporary era is border control we do not care who is out there or what they are doing we want to see only those who are entitled to enter.
