1. Why has Foucault used the image of the Panopticon? Why does Foucault think that the Panopticon is more than a prison design and is actually a principle of social control in modern societies? (For the more detailed version of this question, see question 2 of the Study Guide Questions).
2. How does Foucault view power? What are its major characteristics? (This is question 3 of the Study Guide Questions.)
3. Outside of prisons, the use of surveillance is a way to manage and control our bodies
our behaviour and our relationships with one another. Surveillance (or the threat of it)
thereby becomes self-surveillance (self-monitoring). Choose one of the things listed
below, and discuss how they are part of the surveillance society Foucault feared:
Loyalty cards (e.g., Best Buy Rewards Zone, Carmike Cinema Rewards, Harris
Teeter VIC Card, HBC Rewards)
Metadata (e.g., on photos)
ID and access cards (e.g., your student ID)
Web analytics (e.g., on Sakai)
Biometrics (e.g., face recognition software)
Mobile phones (e.g., geo-location)
Security cameras (where are they not?)
Email, web access, and status updates
READINGS***
Chapter 10: “Power, Bodies, and Subjects: The social theory of Michel Foucault” (pp581-614)
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