Panopticism: The Missing Piece…. What they

are not telling you.

By: Hunter Brown

And Annalise LiaBraaten

Panopticism in everyday life:

The IdeaThe VisionPresent Day

Parent Child RelationshipReligionSchoolsTechnologyCan it work?

The idea of PanopticismMichel Foucault's Idea

Controlling Behavior through fear of being watched.

Derived from Jeremy Bentham’s idea of the Panopticon

The panopticon was the design of a prison in which each prisoner would be contained in a solitary cell in a set of cell placed in a circle around a central tower. The prisoners would not be able to see the guards in the tower. The prisoners would also not be able to see each other or to interact without being monitored at all times.

The idea is to imprint in the criminals head that they are constantly being watched. It is hoped that once released the prisoner, having this notion of constantly being surveyed, will alter or correct behavior such that they will not longer commit crimes because they will feel they are under surveillance.

Panopticism in schools Foucault’s Vision

Separate children in a fashion similar to that of the prisoners in the Panopticon

Less classroom chattering and distraction More effective learning environment

Problems Children lose social interaction By placing children in groups it enables the children

to teach each other Some children learn better from another child

explaining how a certain system works There are added benefits to the children who then teach

By teaching the child undergoes a greater understanding of the process which they now must teach to another individual.

Panopticism in the Parent Child Relationship

Santa Claus is Coming to Town

Lyrics:

“He sees you when your sleeping, he knows when you’re wake, he knows if you’ve been bad or good so be good for goodness sake.

You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout I’m telling you why; Santa Claus is coming to town.”

The Hidden Meaning:“He sees you when your sleeping, he knows

when you’re wake, he knows if you’ve been bad or good”This song signifies Santa’s omniscient abilities

“You better watch out, you better not cry, you better not pout I’m telling you why”

It controls children’s behavior through fear of not getting gifts

Religion Societal necessity

Teaches people to be good to one another Necessary as a form of maintaining order in

developing civilizations. Does so by controlling the thoughts and

actions of individuals Sins

Indecent thoughts Acts of violence Not following the teachings

Committing Sins will lead to eternal Damnation

Religion can be manipulated to be a form of control to get individuals to follow as set of given rules and guidelines by fear of punishment.

dogma 1: a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof 2: a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative."Through the Looking Glass". That poem, "The Walrus and the Carpenter"

that's an indictment of organized religion. The walrus, with his girth and his good nature, he obviously represents either Buddha, or... or with his tusk, the Hindu elephant god, Lord Ganesha. That takes care of your Eastern religions. Now the carpenter, which is an obvious reference to Jesus Christ, who was raised a carpenter's son, he represents the Western religions. Now in the poem, what do they do... what do they do? They... They dupe all these oysters into following them and then proceed to shuck and devour the helpless creatures en masse. I don't know what that says to you, but to me it says that following these faiths based on mythological figures ensure the destruction of one's inner-being. Organized religion destroys who we are by inhibiting our actions... by inhibiting our decisions, out of... out of fear of some... some intangible parent figure who... who shakes a finger at us from thousands of years ago and says... and says, "Do it - Do it and I'll fu[**]in' spank you. “

-Loki

Quote from the Movie “Dogma”

This quote shows that interpretation depends on the view of the reader.Religion is a very powerful tool that

in most cases promotes peace; however, it can also be used as device for control by using fear as a motivator or instigator.

Panopticism in History

The Nazi Party Started a “Boy Scout” type organization

called the “Hitlerjugend” (Hitler Youth) Like scouts, the hitlerjugend, had weekly meetings

teaching them survival basics. Part of their survival they were taught depended on the strength of their country men and women.

Speaking out against the government or disobeying the law weakened the country

The hitlerjugend were instructed to report any and all individuals including family members to their leader.

These violators were then arrested.

Hitlerjugend

Boy Scout

Who’s Watching You?Your children

Would you believe that this current school program is modeled after the Nazi’s monitoring system?

Children Report on Family Members

The DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) Program Designed to teach kids the dangers of drugs Encourages Kids to report any and all illegal

activity to the Police This destroys the families involved often leading to

divorce of the parents and/or undoing of family ties. (see the web sites listed under sources for several examples)

Who’s Selling Your Information?

Everything in this world is for sale even you.

Your Grocery storeThe Grocery store offers those

great member discount cards free of charge.What they are really doing is tracking

your every purchase.

Financial institutionsTrack spending habits

•Sell your information•This is the reason you get phone calls advertising special offers.

New TechnologyOrganized Crime

Where there’s technology, there’s theft. Local Police

Cameras at intersectionsNow you can have tickets mailed to you!

The governmentMonitors your phone callsCapable of finding you anywhere in the

world

Organized CrimeNot only do the banks have

cameras but so do Criminals, and theirs are more high tech.

Typical ATM

Camera hidden inside that allows both the screen and touch pad to be viewed as you enter in your password.

Getting the pin isn’t enough to clean out your account.

That’s why they also steal your ATM card number.

Standard ATMDevice to capture ATM card number.

As long as the information is there it can be stolen or sold.

Increasing technology doesn’t make you safe. But you sure will be told that it will.

As long as there is system to keep you safe there exists a system to get around it.

The Police Cameras at intersections

The idea was good- install cameras to prevent accidents caused by motorists running red lights through fear of being issued a ticket when caught on camera.

The reality is that the fear of being ticketed is so great that accidents actually increased as a result of motorists panicking and slamming on the breaks when they would have otherwise gone through the intersection.

The Government Currently the U.S. Government

monitors every cell phone conversation made in the U.S. (possibly in the world) They search for certain key words

Then the key words are run through a computer program that filters the key words and finds the context in which they are used to determine if the person is a threat to National Security.

Tracking your location The FCC has recently required that all cell

phones contain GPS (Global Positioning System) technology

The user will be able to be tracked within 300 meters by next year.

They know who you are.They know what you’ve read.They know your interests

Purchases madeSearch’s on the internet

They know what you eatThey know where you are and

where you have been.You cannot escape.

Panopticism worksNew York City was experiencing

high volumes of crime rates. To combat criminal behavior Mayor

Rudolf Giuliani decided to put fear into the criminals of the city

The number one area crime took place was in the Subway system.

Subway map w/ Graffiti Subway car w/ Graffiti

Giuliani realized that as long as area existed in which criminals felt comfortable they would go there to commit crimes.

Subway Station Subway car - clean

Rudolf created an new work force for the subway system who’s sole purpose was to clean all graffiti within 1 hour of it being put up.

The clean stations made the criminals believe that they were in a clean place thus affecting their decision to commit crimes. They were uncomfortable trashing or misbehaving in such a pure space.

The missing pieceWith all the advances in technology we

should feel safer, right? But the truth is with all this added safety comes added risk. What you aren’t told is how all these new technological advances will impact your life in a negative way. If the government can track you then so can anyone. With all the available detailed information about our lives out there it becomes that much easier for individuals to find out our most personal information; and use it to influence and take over our lives.

Sources Panoticon-http://besser.tsoa.nyu.edu/impact/f96/Projects/

dengberg/ Parent-child

Santa Picture-http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml?f=view&id=418066 Dogma

Definition-http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=dogma Movie quote-http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120655/quotes Movie cover

photo-http://www.chez.com/infofilm/Data/Jaquettes/D/dogma/dogma%20av.jpg

Children watching family members DARE

http://www.sayno.com/dare34.html http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=10752 http://cyphernet.org/cyphernomicon/chapter11/11.10.html http://forums.newspeakdictionary.com/viewtopic.php?

t=334&highlight=dare+parent http://cyphernet.org/cyphernomicon/chapter11/11.10.html

Nazi Party http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Whatsup_will

Sources- cont. The Government

http://www.alternet.org/story/12776/ http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,69390-0.html http://www.tifac.org.in/offer/tsw/japnano.htm#photo http://chem4823.usask.ca/~cassidyr/OnNano-Panopticism-

ASociologicalPerspective.htm#_edn6 Traffic Cameras

http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/07/733.asp http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/02/288.asp http://www.phantomplate.com/print_nytimes.html http://www.stopredlightrunning.com/html/

newsrelease_011905.htm Bank Cameras

http://www.snopes.com/crime/warnings/atmcamera.asp Subway

http://www.italian-american.com/rudyg.htm