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Panopticon By Foucault

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Foucault argues that truth is found through the view and observation of society. This is set up in the example of the Panopticon, which places a tower in the center of a structure. Those in the tower can be observed and watched by those around it, which Foucault suggests provides the observers with power causing those in the tower to “become the principal of his subjugation” (Foucault, 203). Through this, Foucault makes the claim this authority comes from examination and is controlled by discipline-mechanisms and disciplinary societies. Essentially, this means that within a disciplinary society learning, research, and even truth is controlled within the society for its protection. However, he argues that in a free society “disciplines are broken

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