Produce a written Analysis discussing something in our day to day lives which is Panoptic
Include;
· Faucodian terminology.
· 5 quotes from text by Michel Foucault.
Developing technologies and fashions such as a smartphones, consoles, and clothing could be considered a ramification of Panopticism. People ‘abandoning their statutory identity’ to follow form and fashion to have the latest gadgets and impress with dressing the way they think they should be viewed and presented, showing status and their knowledge of keeping up to date. There is an ‘omniscient power’ instructing people of how they should act, what they should buy and the way they should live. We can’t see it but it is there in advertising, shops, magazines, billboards, everywhere you look. We become a ‘disciplined society’ as we follow instruction about what is in fashion and what is considered to be in at certain times. We spend money to keep up appearance and are constantly looked at and judged by this set criteria. When shopping, many people see us but we don’t always see them, we are looked at and observed and we so the same to others. We behave in public situations the way we are indoctrinated to behave, shopping requires composure and patience which not everyone has but often pretends to have to keep in with behaviour which acceptable. We try clothes on; put them on the hanger and pay. We don’t run out of the shop with them, people who do this are looked down upon. We wait restlessly to hear about the release of new technologies such as phones and buy into them even if the one we have is perfectly fine and effective. Technologies speaks status.
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