Foucault
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Governments exercise sovereign power over the whole of society. Foucault labels the form of power most used by governments to “punish” as discipline. Discipline is viewed as a means of manipulating individuals in such a manner as to make them obey. In order to achieve this, discipline must include certain techniques according to Foucault. Such techniques of behavior modification include observation that is hierarchical with continuous supervision. Power remains invisible but individuals are always visible. Therefore, since the goal of punishment is correction, prisons are used because they make individual obey and help them transform. Foucault found the panopticon developed by Bentham the perfect structure for encompassing all of the corrective training techniques needed to make individuals docile and transform them to achieve desired outcomes or behave in an intended manner. As Foucault explains, “Bentham laid down the principle that power should be visible and unverifiable. Visible: the inmate will constantly have before his eyes the tall outline of the central tower from which he is spied upon. Unverifiable: the inmate must never know whether he is being looked at at any one moment; but he must be sure that he may always be so” (201).The machinery of the panopticon is excellent as a mechanism of power because it is more effective than other means of discipline. This is because of its hierarchical, continuous, invisible an
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