Panopticon - Wikipedia
The French philosopher Michel Foucault
Michel Foucault - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Michel Foucault - Wikipedia
... looked at the idea:
An Introduction to Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish - A Macat Sociology Analysis - YouTube
This book looks at power:
Discipline and Punish - Wikipedia
Foucault: power is everywhere | Understanding power for social change | powercube.net | IDS at Sussex University
Foucault, panopticism and digital power
While power is often thought of as something someone important (like a king) “holds”, Foucault saw it very differently. He revealed power to be highly distributed, diffuse and relational. In the modern world, the pressure we feel to behave in certain ways is often disconnected from any particular person or organization. Instead it’s embedded in social norms, social structures, institutionalized rules, networks and even physical spaces.
In his book Discipline and Punish, Foucault famously refers to utilitarian philosopher, Jeremy Bentham’s invention the “panopticon” as a metaphor for decentralized power through surveillance and self-surveillance.
The panopticon is a prison design in which individual cells surround a tower at the centre from which a guard could, at any point in time, be looking. The prisoners never know when the guard is looking (like with a one-way mirror), but because it’s always possible, they behave as if watched, thus, disciplining themselves.
Bentham saw his invention as stupendously excellent design for its economical efficiency, and he imagined it should be applied to schools, hospitals and other institutions as well. For Foucault, this panopticon is a metaphor demonstrating how power, at one time associated with a sovereign, became embedded into the very institutions, and architectures of the spaces we live in.
Foucault, panopticism and digital power – The Dead Philosophers' Guide to New Technology
This includes all sorts of related issues:
Panopticism - Wikipedia
Surveillance capitalism - Wikipedia
Normalization (sociology) - Wikipedia
And has thrown up all sorts of responses - and all very recent responses:
Unlike the Panopticon, citizens don’t know they are being watched
Internet of things: morals reformed? Health preserved? Industry invigorated?
What does the panopticon mean in the age of digital surveillance? | Technology | The Guardian
On BBC Radio 4:
Who is watching you?
Start the Week
Society is at a turning point, warns Professor Shoshana Zuboff. Democracy and liberty are under threat as capitalism and the digital revolution combine forces. She tells Andrew Marr how new technologies are not only mining our minds for data, but radically changing them in the process. As Facebook celebrates its 15th birthday she examines what happens when a few companies have unprecedented power and little democratic oversight.
Although behavioural data is constantly being abstracted by tech companies, John Thornhill, Innovations Editor at the Financial Times, questions whether they have yet worked out how to use it effectively to manipulate people. And he argues that the technological revolution has brought many innovations which have benefitted society.
Start the Week - Who is watching you? - BBC Sounds
Futures Forum: Surveillance capitalism
Welcome to China:
Nosedive (Black Mirror) - Wikipedia
No, China isn’t Black Mirror – social credit scores are more complex and sinister than that
China’s ‘social credit’ system is a real-life ‘Black Mirror’ nightmare - NYPost
Credit as a Social Technology: Black Mirror, China, and the Case for Social Credit
Welcome to Black Mirror:
Black Mirror S03E01 Airport scene - YouTube
Black Mirror | Nosedive Featurette [HD] | Netflix - YouTube
Black Mirror's 'Nosedive' episode may have predicted the future in China | Buzz.ie
'Black Mirror' Recap: 'Nosedive' Is a Sharp Satire About Social Media - The Atlantic
There are other such episodes:
The Entire History of You | Black Mirror - YouTube
Black Mirror and Control Society | Narrative and Technology, Spring 2015
Black Mirror: subjectivity and technology in “The Entire History of You”
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