Jeremy Bentham first described the panopticon as the ideal
prison in which a prisoner cannot tell at any given moment if he is being
watched.
Michel Foucault describes this in Discipline and Punish, but goes further
and makes the claim that through the discipline of schooling we have created a
society of panopticism.
We are all watching each other, there are cameras
everywhere, furthermore, we are always watching ourselves.
We become normalized into a society of panopticism
through schooling and we then become the guards that may be watching other
people, and we watch ourselves.
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