Responding to More Predictable, Tedious Conformity

Trump’s Panopticon: Establishing Conformity through the Gaze of the State

In Michel Foucault’s groundbreaking 1975 book, “Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison,” he explored how those who violated the laws of the royal sovereign were subject to torture as a form of punishment. Reform meant the goal of punishment had to evolve from sovereign revenge to the correction of deviant or abnormal behavior, so the one needing discipline could be aligned with societal norms. Foucault reintroduced the reader to the pris…

Responding to More Predictable, Tedious Conformity

There are many differences between us, George, but some are particularly relevant to this debate.