Episode 32
E32: Foucault, /Discipline and Punish/, part 3: expertise, panopticism, and the Big Visible Chart
May 8, 202332m 48s
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Show Notes
The final episode of "the Foucault trilogy". Ways of evaluating humans that became common during the ~1750-1850 period. Bentham's Panopticon as a metaphor. Self-improvement via exhibitionism. Final reflections on Foucault.
Sources
- Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: the Birth of the Prison, 1975.
- C.G. Prado, Starting With Foucault (2/e), 2000.
- Ian Hacking, The Social Construction of What?, 1999.
Other sources
- Mississippi State University Extension, "Dairy Cattle Judging".
- Jeremy Bentham: The Panopticon Writings (PDF), Miran Božović (ed.), 1995.
- The Koepelgevangenis panopticon is described in "The Panopticon Effect" podcast episode. (There is no transcript, but there is a longish narrative.)
- Ron Jeffries, "Big Visible Charts", 2004.
- "Brainless slime mold grows in pattern like Tokyo’s subway system", 2022 (video).
Contact links (if you want the bonus episode on "Edgelord Foucault")
- Email: [email protected]
- Mastodon: @[email protected]
Picture credit
BigVisibleCharts.com (archived), Marty Andrews.
Topics
foucaultthe PanopticonexpertisepanopticismBig Visible Chartsinformation radiators