Overview
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- According to Foucault, what is the relationship between the plague-stricken town and the panoptic establishment? In other words, why does he bring them up in the same chapter? What is his purpose for doing so?
- What is the Panopticon? Why does Foucault call it “power reduced to its ideal form?” Clarify how power becomes automated under panopticism.
- What are the major effects of panopticism on society? What are the consequences of those effects?
- What does Foucault mean by "power"? How does it relate to "knowledge," and how does knowledge operate?
- (Foucault touches on this a bit in the reading (p. 658)
- Use MLA in-text citations when citing or explaining evidence from the assigned reading