
In the book surveillance and punishment, Michel Foucault introduce an architecture designed by Jeremy Bentham in 1785, which is called Panopticon.
People in cells can’t see the warder,but warder can watch those prisoners clearly.
By creating visibility and invisibility,the building creates a hierarchy of power and it acts as an instrument of domestication.
People begin to censor and discipline themselves, even if they dont know whether they are being watched or not
Mark Poster also argued that Because of the creation of databases, the technological mode of domination of power achieves the omnipresent surveillance of people all the time.
People in cells can’t see the warder,but warder can watch those prisoners clearly.
By creating visibility and invisibility,the building creates a hierarchy of power and it acts as an instrument of domestication.
People begin to censor and discipline themselves, even if they dont know whether they are being watched or not
Mark Poster also argued that Because of the creation of databases, the technological mode of domination of power achieves the omnipresent surveillance of people all the time.