Foucault, /Discipline and Punish/, part 3: expertise, panopticism, and the Big Visible Chart
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The final episode of "the Foucault trilogy". Ways of evaluating humans that became common during the ~1750-1850 period. Bentham's Panopticon as a metaphor. Self-improvement via exhibitionism. Final reflections on Foucault. Sources Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: the Birth of the Prison, 1975. C.G. Prado, Starting With Foucault (2/e), 2000. Ian Hacking, The Social Construction of What?, 1999. Other sources Mississippi State University Extension, "Dairy Cattle Judging". Jeremy Bentham: The Panopticon Writings (PDF), Miran Božović (ed.), 1995. The Koepelgevangenis panopticon is described in "The Panopticon Effect" podcast episode. (There is no transcript, but there is a longish narrative.) Ron Jeffries, "Big Visible Charts", 2004. "Brainless slime mold grows in pattern like Tokyo’s subway system", 2022 (video). Contact links (if you want the bonus episode on "Edgelord Foucault") Email: [email protected] Mastodon: @[email protected] Picture creditBigVisibleCharts.com (archived), Marty Andrews.
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