Panopticism

In tandem with making things, I think it is important to do a little reading/research on architecture and space. My thought is that the new knowledge from the articles will serve as fodder for the "making" brainstorming. By understanding a method, I will be able to rethink and re-envision it.

Notes on Panopticism by Foucault

-Began end of 17^th century

-segmented, immobile, frozen space

-in a fixed place in which the slightest movements are supervised, in which all events are recorded

-power is excercised without division

-what characterizes him, what happens to him

-ritual of exclusion

-multiple separations, individualizing distributions, an organization in depth of surveillance and control, an intensification and ramification of power

-the practice of rejection

-the forcing of a “pure community” “disciplined society” by controlling relationships and separating our “dangerous mixtures

-function according to a double mode-

-that of binary division and branding (dangerous/harmless) (normal/abnormal)

-differential distribution (who he is, where he must be, how he is to be characterized, how he is to be recognized, how a constant surveillance is to be exercised over him))