Panopticism

But the Panopticon was also a laboratory; it could be used as a machine to carry out experiments, to alter behavior, to train or correct individuals. They wanted to turn that into like a laboratory because they already were able to see what any person at anytime was doing without being seen; now they wanted to see how people would react to any kind of punishment put to them. Anywhere public that you go is like a Panopticon, everywhere that you go somebody is seeing you no matter is a camera or a police man that is there waiting for you doing something bad, they want to see if you are following their discipline, or how you are behaving in different kinds of atmospheres, everything that is why the question said that all those places resemble prisons, that is because all of them look like Panopticon right now, they want to see you, but they want to make you think that you are not being seen. What the political systems have done to make all the people follow their orders is the discipline, thanks to this we have been able to stay by the laws, since the beginning we have been getting used to that, that is why we the majority of people always follow the rules without a problem, we have been submitted to their discipline, and that is why all the world is kept in order because in each part of the world they follow their orders and have their way to put their discipline, and the one who does not follow it, is punished with a variety of punishments to make him/her accomplish the discipline that they want. “Panopticism is the general principle of a new ‘political anatomy’ whose object and end are not the relations of sovereignty but the relations of discipline” (238). are making think that person that he/she is being seen, but at the same time he/she may not, so they always have to be thinking of what they are doing before doing it. As the question in the last paragraph of the text says “Is it surprising that prisons resemble factories […] hospitals, which all resemble prisons?” (253). To try out different punishment on prisoners, according to their crimes and character, and to seek the most effective ones. To experiment and monitor their effects. (235)

Since then, all the law systems and politics of the world have tried to make their laws look like a Panopticism. They wanted to know how they would behave against some kind of punishment, or to anything different than what they were doing before.

Now that they knew that they had all the power that they wanted into that thing, what they wanted to do now was to experiment with the prisoners that were inside the Panopticon.