From Discipline & Punish (1975).
2007-07-15 08:11:24 · 2 answers · asked by newcitykitty 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
torture, punishment, discipline and prison
For more details, go to Wikipedia and put in his name. By the way, the Panopticon was actually designed by Bentham, but Foucault evoked it in his book on prison theory.
2007-07-15 09:12:29 · answer #1 · answered by mommanuke 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The individuality discipline constructs for the bodies it controls has four characteristics, namely it makes individuality which is:
cellular - determining the spatial distribution of the bodies
organic - ensuring that the activities required of the bodies are "natural" for them
genetic - controlling the evolution over time of the activities of the bodies
combinatory - allowing for the combination of the force of many bodies into a single massive force
2007-07-19 14:57:14 · answer #2 · answered by Menehune 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋