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French philosopher Michel Foucault dedicated a whole section of his book Discipline and Punish to the significance of the Panopticon. His take was essentially this: The same mechanism at work in the Panopticon – making subjects totally visible to authority – leads to those subjects internalizing the norms of power. In Foucault’s words “…the major effect of the Panopticon; to induce in the inmate a state of conscious and permanent visibility that assures the automatic functioning of power. So to arrange things that the surveillance is permanent in its effects, even if it is discontinuous in its action; that the perfection of power should tend to render its actual exercise unnecessary” In short, under the possibility of total surveillance the inmate becomes self regulating.





Ähm, finde nur ich das krass?:
Beim zweiten Link (Den Kühlschränken) das dreizehnte Bild (Short Order Cook), da liegt eine fette Schlange im Gefrierfach, eine Schlange!!! ISt das normal???
EDIT: Ok, die Erklärung hat sich gefunden, der Künstler schreibt:
“It is a Bull Snake. I met this woman out in the desert. She had plans to make a walking stick out of the snake and still had not gotten around to it! She was pretty wild.”