Definition Of Panopticon By Foucault

Michel Foucault theses focuses on disciplinary societies, the idea of creating docile bodies to use them, improve them or change them. Societies achieved this by using the concept of the Panopticon, the idea of surveilling them, people will be aware that they are being watched in schools, prison or hospitals but won’t know when. This prevents people from doing any unethical activity since they don’t know when they are being watched. Panopticism disciplined bodies without the use of punishment from authorities, it deals with the presence of an authoritative figure for surveillance measure only. In today’s era, we are no longer in a disciplinary society, but in a control society. We are being controlled, not as we once were by discipline

Deleuze notes the differences between disciplinary societies and control societies. In a disciplinary society, school and prison exist in an enclosed space, when you were in school, it was the only place where you could have learned something new or get discipline, there was a sense of confinement. You needed to remain in school to get a job and work. On the other hand, control societies can give the people the open spaces they want to create a successful life without the need of attending school, but how can you do this? By taking online classes, working from home and using google and Facebook to learn new things. As Deleuze

In The Affective Turn Political Economy, Biomedia, and Bodies, Patricia Clough states that “The function of the media as a socializing/ideological mechanism had become secondary to its continuous modulation, variation, and intensification of affective response in real time, where bodily affect is mined for value. There is a socialization of time as media makes "affect an impersonal flow before it is a subjective content," (220) Facebook would first use your personal interest, your relationships, your favorite music and books etc. as an ambiguous value. After this they would sell these interests and emotions that we are constantly displaying on Facebook to advertising companies. Lastly, they will have these sponsored advertisements on our Facebook for products they think we would buy based on our past post and searches. Facebook erases the difference that existed between commodities and labor, the user becomes both the laborer and the commodity “As capital extracts value from affect-around consumer confidence, political fears, and so forth, such that the difference between commodification and labor, production and reproduction are collapsed in the modulation of the capacity to circulate