Good quotes - foucault

In describing the effect of the panoptican, 'he is seen, but he does not see; he is the object of information, never the subject in communication'
P200

Although this is an extreme viewpoint when reviewing classroom design, it does connect with the central design perspective of the teacher as controller 'power has its principle not so much in in a person as in a certain concerted distribution of bodies, surfaces, lights, gazes; in an arrangement whose internal mechanisms produce the relation in which individuals are caught up.' p202

I like the phrase 'caught up' here. As in a spiral, sucking more things in towards it, all self generated, and very difficult to swim against the tide.

In describing the effect of the panoptican, 'he is seen, but he does not see; he is the object of information, never the subject in communication'
P200

Although this is an extreme viewpoint when reviewing classroom design, it does connect with the central design perspective of the teacher as controller 'power has its principle not so much in in a person as in a certain concerted distribution of bodies, surfaces, lights, gazes; in an arrangement whose internal mechanisms produce the relation in which individuals are caught up.' p202

I like the phrase 'caught up' here. As in a spiral, sucking more things in towards it, all self generated, and very difficult to swim against the tide.

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