COMPUTER ETHICS

Computer Ethics

Computer Ethics

Critical analysis of the statement of Michel Foucault argument that Panopticon shall be acknowledged as a generalized functioning model, a method demonstrating power relations in terms of the everyday life of men

The Panopticon is a prison designed by visionary British philosopher Jeremy Bentham in 1791. The concept of this design allows an observer to observe all prisoners without being able to leaving a clue to prisoners if they are being watched or not. The structure incorporates a prison guard tower, in the center ring of a building that is divided into cells. Each of these cells comprises a surface area, which allows two holes: one to enter outer and an inner light directed toward the watchtower. The occupants of the cells would be found separated from each other through the use of walls and subject to collective and individual monitoring of a watchman in the tower would remain hidden.

In the observation tower to end this, it is envisioned by Bentham to blind the Venetian windows. This will not only avoid the betrayal of an observer's presence, labyrinthine connections in tower rooms were installed. These will help in avoiding noise and flash lights. According to Bentham design, this would be cheaper than the prisons of his time, as it requires fewer employees (Barton and Barton, 1993). Since the guards cannot be seen, it is not necessary that they were working all the time, leaving the work of observation instants. Although the design had limited effects on prisons Bentham's time, was seen as an important development. So, Michel Foucault (in Discipline and Punish) considered design as an example of a new technology that would transcend the observation Army, to education and factories.

Panopticon with courtesy from Foucault has turned into a dominant symbol in the studies related to surveillance. This key focus aimed at the moral reformation of institutionalized bodies and operating through a de facto closure of individual agency tends to limit our conception of the complex ways surveillance serves and disrupts power. Through analysis of commercial and workplace surveillance, it is revealed that power is contested and agency never completely closed down. This envisions surveillance within a social setting operated by multiple agents who themselves are open to the gaze of those surveyed.

Similarities and differences between the Panopticon's plague stricken town and the potential architecture

The main similarity in plague stricken town of Panopticon and potential architecture ...