Panoptisim Institutions

I learn't about an interesting subject to do with the control of people in todays society called and how it has taken place through history. The name of the this is called panopticon which is "a circular prison with cells arranged around a central well, from which prisoners could at all times be observed.", we talked about about how has been turned into a symbolic meaning of control, we currently in modern day life style come across this in life it relates to working jobs e.g. office jobs mainly because the staff/workers are always on watch by the boss giving them no freedom to do as they choose because they are in open sight of the boss. This is relative to the circular prison because it relates to the fact of always being watched under control even though you don't know it is happening.

Everyone in the lecture was told that this factor plays a part in all of our lives and there is no escape from it highlight the whole issue of being watched by big brother a higher being compared to us as up and coming working class people, similar to that of George Orwell's 1984 all to do with the monitoring of everyone in society through surveillance cameras and technological screens. This concept of panopticon is not just about about being watch fiscally but it can be filed and sorted information on.

Panopticon was regarded as a prison, where the prisoners were watched behind walls through small gap holes to the point where they thought they were always being watch even though they were not, especially when they wanted to escape but felt they could not because the thought of being caught and the punishment that followed would bare too much for them.

Open office that follows the same panopticon plan

Panopticon prison

Panopticon prison in modern day

The idea of this concept is also seen with in the animation industry because people that work for animation companies are always under constant surveillance based on the work they produce all members of a animation team have important things to do when working on one animated piece so the need to get these things right. Animators are not watched as hard as the prisoners would have been in the panopticon prison, but they are watched to see how well they are getting on with their work.