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Betrayal Of Panopticon

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Panopticon as a social disciplinary mechanism, it regulates the social roles in modern society. According to Michel Foucault, panopticon allows an ostensible liberty of choice for individuals in modern society. By virtue of unverifiable operation of supervision, the panoptical mechanism auto-motivates our self-functioning of power because we believe that the omnipresent and omniscient existence of the mechanism is self-evident. The society reifies the panopticon to supervise your behaviour in public sphere. For instance, parents conform the juridical obligation to raise and protect their children while children are expected to subordinate the rules. Thus, parenting influences the growth of children as a functioning panopticon. Nonetheless, the process of identity formation is a cognitive process of subjectivity to be the agency of a series of recognition and resistance against the mechanism. …show more content…

adapt the idea of binary division that of branding and coercive assignment to articulate the operation of panoptical system into identity. The binary division of branding distinguishes an individual’s traits from the others. As for the coercive assignment, it exercises the separation according to the branding. Panoptical

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