use of surveillance has dramatically increased in the United Kingdom since 1994. Since this time surveillance has become an integral part of the government’s crime prevention strategy. For example‚ the U.K uses more CCTV cameras per head of population than anywhere else in the world. It is estimated that five hundred thousand CCTV cameras operate within London; this means there is one camera for every fourteen people (McCahill and Norris‚ 2006). This paper will mainly focus on surveillance in the
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The essay focuses on the state apparatuses’ surveillance of people described in George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four‚ such as telescreen‚ Big Brother’s images and propaganda. In the essay‚ the thesis argues that the surveillance is a hierarchical gaze which embodies an unequal relationship between the subject of viewing and the object of being viewed. More importantly‚ being pressured by the hierarchical gaze from the state apparatuses‚ individuals adapt this way of seeing and gaze at themselves
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Everything In One View: Panopticism Then & Now "Everyone locked up in his cage‚ everyone at his window‚ answering to his name and showing himself when asked - it is great review of the living and the dead (Foucault 282)." Panopticism by Michel Foucault is a French philosophical essay that explores the themes of power and discipline and how it was manipulated in the seventeenth century and how it affected society over time. In "Panopticism" I noted a relationship between power and discipline in
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There are many theories regarding how social order is produced and reproduced ‚ but this essay will focus on the similarities and differences between the two contrasting accounts of how social order is produced‚ provided by Goffman and Foucault. Social order is the term used to describe the unspoken rules of conduct in everyday life‚ or a stable social situation in which connections are maintained without change or if change occurs it is in a predictable way. (Taylor‚ 2009‚ p. 173) These differing
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Orwell’s book “1984” is a novel about a dystopian society that is constantly monitored. The society is systematically based on creating an efficient world where people are compelled to not rebel. Orwell creates a book that incorporates ideas from Marx‚ Foucault‚ and Weber. The Party is seen to overuse its authority by restraining people from exploring their individuality. It showcases how a society will end up being based on the desire of power. The Party is driven by power and control. The dystopia society
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Rehabilitation vs institutionalisation The film The Shawshank Redemption addresses the process and consequences of institutionalization. Released in 1994 and directed by Frank Darabont‚ it is based on a novella by Stephen King titled Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption. Both works trace the lives of long-term prisoners in Shawshank Prison. The fictional penitentiary‚ located in Maine‚ is run by the corrupt Warden Norton and guard captain Byron Hadley‚ the former involved in money
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Unfortunately‚ such non-examined concepts are normalized in the level of human consciousness and in effect‚ rendering the individual a myopic perspective of reality. This has been the context by which Michel Foucault built his overall frameworks of thought. As a philosopher and cultural historian‚ Foucault underscored in his writings that the fundamental ideas that people commonly consider as the permanent truths of their being have changed throughout the course of history. Without a doubt‚ with his unorthodox
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there needed to be surveillance in order to eliminate unfaithfulness to communism. Government officials‚ police‚ and other advocates watched the society closely to ensure complete obedience reminding us of Michael Foucault’s theory of punishment and discipline and Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon. Analyzing East Germany circa 1984 through Florian von
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“Panopticism” Michel Foucault‚ very well seen as a leading academic and philosopher‚ wrote many great book and essays. The well known book‚ “Panopticism‚” describes the idea of how one controls things through power. Foucault uses a broad variety of examples throughout the passage to convey the sense of society and how one is controlled by a panopticon. To share is thoughts on society he uses vivid descriptions of the idea of a plague in a community and how society was quarantined to remain sterile
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is about power relation‚ and the presence of the discipline power by observation is undeniable in it. Gus and Ben learn they are under the non- verbal gaze of the unseen power that controls their attitudes and behaviours. In a system of total surveillance‚ just a gaze is enough to control‚ dominate others and holds power over them. The mysterious and controlling character‚ Wilson command‚ controls and directs their lives and actions despite the lack of any direct contact. In a power relationship
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