The Eye of PowerMichel Foucault

Panopticon

Democracy

Transparent Society

'Each comrade becomes an overseer'

“Each Comrade becomes an overseer.” -Bentham pg 152

Justice Punishment

Justice = Prevention of wrongdoing

Disciplinary Society

“Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories, schools, barracks, hospitals, which all resemble

prisons?”

“All that is then needed is to put an overseer in the tower and place in each of the cells a lunatic, a patient, a convict, a worker or a schoolboy.”pg147

Power Structures

“Yet it is hard to discern who it is who stands toprofit from the organised space that Bentham conceived.

Does society benefit or the elite from surveillance?”-Jean-Pierre Barou pg 156

“As long as the government is allowed to collect all Internet data, the perceived exigency will

drive honest civil servants to reach more broadly and deeply into our networked live.”

-Yochai Benkler

“One has the feeling of confronting aninfernal model that no one, either the watcher

or the watched, can escape.”-Jean-Pierre Barou pg 156

When does surveillance turn into malveillence?List some situations

in which it has. List situations in which it has benefitted society.

Where do we draw the line between nationalsecurity and information privacy?

Is it necessary to monitor all citizens all the time? What is there to hide if you aren’t doing

anything wrong?Split into two groups and debate this question.

Who will oversee the overseer?Discuss some ways in which the

government can be monitored by a network of internet users.

Some would argue that in being monitored by society our sense of right and wrong is taken away and delegated to the government. Why think of what is right and wrong if

someone else is doing it for you?