The Panopticon - a podcast by Ryder Richards

After discussing the social contract and the balance of "Freedom From/Freedom To" Ryder looks at another form of social power dynamics that stem from ideological prison design, grow into institutional and workplace behavior modification, and eventually spread to the public internalizing self discipline and punishment, and participating not only in surveilling other citizens, but directing their gaze and attention to re-affirm and verify the authority of the state. This episode introduces Jeremy Benthem's prison design, a limited version of Michel Foucault's ideas from both Discipline & Punish and Power/Knowledge texts, as well as a brief extrapolation of Tony Bennett's "exhibitionary control." 

The Will to DIY has a list of links and commentary: https://thewilltodiy.com/step-13-the-panopticon/

Many thanks to Mistah Lisa and Jonathan Whitfill. 

1:40 Benthem: Guarding prisoners with "visible, but unverifiable power"

4:11 Foucault: Our escaped prisoner walks into a real bar, and gets committed to an asylum. 

6:56 The manager's "surveillance discourse" instills "normative behavior" 

9:00 The Reflective Intelligence Meter: measure your intelligence now! 

11:42 Our escaped prisoner escapes the asylum, and is declared a "genius" in the art world for pointing his eyeballs. 

 

 

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