Task one. 

Choose an example of one aspect of contemporary culture that is, in your opinion, panoptic.
Write an explanation 200 - 300 words.
Use Foucauldian language, such as docile bodies etc.
Use 5 or more quotes from the passage.
Harvard Reference: (Foucault in Thomas, J, 2000:page number)

Ideas: 

• Facebook - your always being watched. People can see where you are what you have been doing who you have seen recently. Everything.
• Mobile Phones - people can hack into your phone and track your every move.
• Internet - people can hack into what you are doing, what you have looked at on your computer, your details to log onto programs.
• Prison tags - for obvious reasons for being on tag you are tagged everywhere you go and confined to  a certain area.
• Airport security - obviously with terror threats there are people always watching your every move and splitting people up to determine the 'abnormal' from the 'normal' 

Quick group task.. chose a subject and find 5 quotes from the passage to relate to the modern subject.

Airport Security

 'The plague gave rise to disciplinary projects" we used this quote relating the 'plague' to the terrorist threats and the disciplinary projects as the airport response to that.

'He is seen, but he does not see; he is the object of information' we related this to the idea of the people in the background of the airport services that are behind the scenes that are not seen but prevent what is going on at the airport.

'Two ways of exercising power over men, of controlling their relations, of separating out their dangerous mixtures'  the way in which they segregate people who may cause suspicion.

'Capillary functioning over power'

'The surveillance is based on a system of permanent registration' the idea that you are always being watched and you are always marked down, and known where you are, where to go and where you are supposed to be.