Michel Foucault

Michel Foucault's theory, in which i focus on in my project of fear and paranoia, is that which focuses around Jeremy Bentham's idea of the perfect prison. The Panopticon. This prison was not only just a prison, but a prison that had life changing, behavioural changes within the inmates that were inside the institution. The reason of that being, was because of the watch tower being one that guards could see out of, but no inmates could see into, so constantly on their guard, not behaving as they usually would“.There was this sense of control, constantly. In the book, written by A. McKinlay and K. Starkey, called "Foucault, Management and Organizational Theory:from panopticon to technology of self." And how it relates to this generation and how technology has affected this society and generation. Where "real lives are converted into written case notes. In short, the body loses its mystery" (p19) Where no matter where we go and what we do, there is "a constant surveillance constituting a new discipline of norms and behaviour" (p35) so linking this to not only the prison, but there is this sense of power that technology is ebbing away from ourselves, and slowly taking over. image from http://www.ucc.ie/ucc/depts/geography/stafhome/denis/panopticon.gif