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Panoptic othering
Apr 12 2007, 7:20 PM EDT
One comment that struck out to me in the reading of "Discipline and Punish" was the line on page 200, midway through the last paragraph:"He is seen, but he does not see; he is the object of information, never a subject in communication" This idea of objectification resonates especially with last week's discussion of race and sexuality, along with the 2nd Foucault reading and Rooney's lecture about the power dynamics of confession. I want to discuss in what ways is the "multiplicity that can be numbered and supervised" (201) offered by the Panopticon similar to the "othering" of race and gender Irigary and Fanon discuss? I also want to discuss how panopticism ties into the confessional act in that the priest/listener is granted information on the confessor, mimicing the 1 way informational flow of the panopticon itself. Do you find this valuable? |
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1. RE: Panoptic othering
Apr 14 2007, 4:06 PM EDT
That quote makes me thing of myspace and facebook, for some reason.~Tristan Do you find this valuable? |
