Foucault and Panopticism Revisited.

The Power of Panopticism

The concept of power has been debated among philosophers for as long as humans have been able to record. What makes someone or something powerful, and what exactly does that mean to us as individuals? Michel Foucault provides a glimpse at one aspect of power in his article, Panopticism. Here, he provides a definition for the " Panopticon: " an all-seeing individual or institution, which may or ...

Foucault, Governmentality, and Critique

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Foucault Studies

REVIEW ESSAY Michel Foucault, History of Madness, translated by Jonathan Murphy and Jean Khalfa (London/New York: Routledge, 2006) ISBN: 0415277019. Alain Beaulieu, Laurentian University Réal Fillion, University of Sudbury Introduction Since its presentation on May 20, 1961, Foucault’s principal doctoral thesis has never ceased both to fascinate and to fuel controversy.1 Blanchot, Barthes, ...

Foucault and Social Measure

Foucault Studies

INTERVIEW Governing Liberal Societies – the Foucault Effect in the English‐ speaking World1 Jacques Donzelot, University of Paris X‐Nanterre Colin Gordon, Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust JD: In the two volumes of his lectures of 1978 and 1979, we see Michel Foucault making a major intellectual change of direction, moving away from an analysis of power as the formation and production of i...