Search results for "Panopticon"

Under Our Eye: Margaret Atwood's Variation on the Panopticon in "The Heart Goes Last"

2020

In her dystopian dark comedy The Heart Goes Last (2015), Margaret Atwood openly refers to Jeremy Bentham’s concept of the Panopticon. The future world depicted in her novel is filled with violence and deprived of both human bonds and hope. Hence, being contained, monitored and — after Foucault — disciplined and punished appears to be the characters’ last resort. Surveillance tempts both sexes as it is politically correct and universal, and it does not privilege one group of people over the other. The article discusses the dystopian vision of the near future as created by Atwood in her 2015 novel, with direct references to the conception of the Panopticon, both in its original meaning propos…

Managing the flow of private information on children and parents in poverty situations : Creating a panoptic eye in interorganizational networks?

2018

In this article, we discuss how the flow of private information about children and families in poverty situations is managed in interorganizational networks that aim to combat child poverty. Although practices for sharing information and documentation between child and family social work services are highly encouraged and recommended to create supportive features for parents and children, this development often results in undesirable forms of governmentality. Interorganizational networking also creates controlling side effects because the exchange of information in networks of child and family services may wield a holistic power over families. We theorize this issue by using the Foucauldian…

Dal "Panopticon" di Bentham a modelli parzialmente panottici. Prigioni tra Settecento e Ottocento

2014

Lo studio prende in esame il Panopticon di Jeremy Bentham, edito nel 1791: in esso l’autore propone un nuovo modello di prigione a pianta circolare e con la torre del sorvegliante. Il recluso è soggetto ad una perenne vigilanza senza sapere se, in effetti, in quel momento è osservato. Così prendendo le mosse dall’analisi sempre attuale del filosofo e storico del XX secolo M. Foucault si riesamina l’opera benthamiana, lumeggiandone gli elementi critici. Infatti, il Panopticon è incentrato fondamentalmente sul principio della visibilità, giacché il potere è visibile ed incontrollabile. Inoltre, esso è pensato sia per i condannati che per tutti coloro che sono soggetti a forme di controllo com…

Biopolitik am Computerbildschirm, in V. Borsò e M. Cometa (a cura) Die Kunst, das Leben zu Bewirtschaften. Biós zwischen Politik, Öikonomie und Äeste…

2013

Bio-politics of the Screen. Gaze, Power and Digital Exhibition

2010

W więzieniu widoczności medialnej. Rozważania o mikropolityce w "ponoptykonicznej rzeczywistości"

2017

W dobie telefonów komórkowych z dostępem do Internetu, wyposażonych w cyfrowe aparaty fotograficzne, „fotoreporterem” może zostać każdy. Dziś polityk nie tylko musi potrafić dobrze się zaprezentować, ale będąc ciągle narażonym na upublicznienie, kontrolować każdy swój gest i ważyć każde słowo. Każdy błąd czy gafa szybko może przerodzić się w poważny kryzys zagrażający wizerunkowi aktora politycznego. Na ciągłą widoczność narażone są nie tylko najważniejsze osoby w państwie, ale wręcz każdy. Co równie istotne, współczesna polityka oparta jest na ciągłej medialnej widoczności. Aktywna obecność na portalach społecznościowych staje się równie ważna, o ile nie ważniejsza od tego, kto i jak głoso…