Foucault's Panopticon

The social theorist, Michel Foucault was a firm believer that knowledge is power and with that he believed that knowledge derives from power. He exemplifies this with his second type of theory on punishment, “Disciplinary Power”, where he states that punishment is no longer about torturing but instead it is about control, training and education. With that, he uses Jeremy Bentham’s design of a building called the “Panopticon”, a disciplinary machine. It is a building with a tower at the center for warders; this gives a three-sixty view of the facility which is comprised with countless cells that only have two windows on it. One for which the warders can observe each cell and the other to bring light directly through; however, none adjacent to