On the appointed day, everyone is ordered to stay indoors: it is forbidden to leave on pain of death. Each street is placed under the authority of a syndic, who keeps it under surveillance if he leaves the street, he will be condemned to death. The following, according to an order published at the end of the seventeenth century, were the measures to be taken when the plague appeared in a town.įirst, a strict spatial partitioning: the closing of the town and its outlying districts, a prohibition to leave the town on pain of death, the killing of all stray animals the division of the town into distinct quarters, each governed by an intendant. Excerpts from Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish ( source) Part III, Chapter 3: Panopticism For Foucault, no person “has” power in Hobbes’ sense. Foucault describes a peculiar prison design, the “panopticon.” That means “all seeing” or “all visible.” Foucault wants us to think about the panopticon as emobodying a new sort of “disciplinary” power that “normalizes” us–ALL of us. Next up are selections from the 20th century French philosopher Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish.
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