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Panopticon

Date Submitted: 11/04/2004 02:01:23
Length: 5 pages (1375 words)
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Knowledge and power hand in hand, but whose hand is it? Regardless from where a person comes from, one is always under constant surveillance by someone in society, which in return affects everyone's individual actions and reactions. Foucault's Panopticism proves that our ideals we have gained from society do manipulate how we act and behave without realizing it. Our society's social factors and the knowledge we possess as a society can control one's action if …

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…knowledge to gain power to manipulate those who conform easily? Do we really need to know this much about humans because soon we will have dissected ourselves so much to a point where nothing else is left to learn? The Panopticon was a work of intelligence for sociologist of its time and today, I believe if it was not invented then that some knowledge and power greedy person would have invented it later in time.

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