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Divisions
03:29
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Divisions
In this living experiment That seeks to separate us From selected freedoms through the guise of rights While the watchman keeps you in sight
He is watching me
Unblinking eye
Set in a tower
Sees our isolation watches our tribulation
They are watching me
Depending on form and function watchman sees all junctions From the tower out shines light Piercingly bright
I know you are watching me
From my fear
of being singled out I avert my gaze never rise
Seldom shout
Now the prisoner
Corrects them-self
I know you are watching me
Stop watching me
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The Marvelous Machine
02:27
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The Marvelous Machine
The Panopticon
a machine
That automatizes
And de-individualize power
It’s Power
in principle
Is not in a person But concerted And distributed On bodies,
Through surfaces, By lights,
And constant gaze;
an arrangement whose mechanisms produce relations For individuals
To be caught up.
This machine
that assures dissymmetry, Creates disequilibrium Maintains difference.
it does not matter
who exercises power.
Or what motivates them
the curiosity of the indiscreet,
the malice of a child,
the thirst for knowledge
of a philosopher
who wishes to visit
this museum of human nature,
or the perversity of those
who take pleasure in spying and punishing. (Bentham, 45).
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Jermey B's Factory
02:24
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Jermey B’s Factory
If the inmates
Are always watched there is no danger of plot Or escape
if the patients
Are always observed there is no danger
of contagion
if the madmen
Are always surveilled there is no risk of committing violence
if the schoolchildren, Are always seen there is no cheating, noise or chatter,
Or Any wasted time
if they are workers,
Are always supervised there will be
no disorder, theft,
Or coalitions to be formed
If the crowd Knows the light in the tower Shines on them
We become
a compact mass,
of multiple exchanges, Where individualities merged together (Bentham, 60-64).
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The Watchtower
03:12
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The Watchtower
the proclivity of disciplinary societies
Is to subjugate its own
each prisoner must know
that power always watches
each citizen must understand they are objects being observed
Today
the watchtower Is constructed of cameras
On buildings on doorbells And in stores
The computers In our pockets And desktops Note actions And movements As their eyes silently watch
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Cross Confined
04:25
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In our uncivil society
We are contained
Not just by our physical place
But through our data
That follows us
throughout cyberspace
Here government and Church
work in conjunction to identify
select
And define It’s function
It’s jurisdiction Holds sovereignty without appeal
This new vision
of our social order
Is defined
By where you search And what you buy
moral obligation And civil law
are linked
within authoritarian constraint
Confinement is condemnation
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Discipline
05:06
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Discipline
All is needed is to place
in each
In their
cell
a madman
a patient
Or the condemned a worker
A prisoner
or a schoolboy
captive shadows in their cells
so many cages Like small theaters in which each actor
is alone
In a circle From a tower Silent eye Watches all
Visible
in a trap. individual
in their place securely confined
He is seen
but he does not see
As the object of information
never a subject in communication.
this invisibility guarantees order.
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Out Me Dig
02:03
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Out Me Dig
Out Me Dig Out Me Dig
Outta’ this mess Get out of my head
What do you want? What do you know?
Out of my body Out of my skin
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New Anatomy
03:02
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New Anatomy
How is power
to be strengthened
in such a way
that does not impede But facilitates progress
How will power,
be able to increase those of society instead of confiscating or impeding them
The social body
with their details, And spatial relations; is what is required To analyze
And quantify
In a mechanism
that monitors
With instruments
rendered visible,
recording,
differentiating and comparing
a new "political anatomy"
whose object and end
are not the relations of sovereignty but the relations of discipline.
These disciplines,
Manifest in enclosed places
Cubicles, schools and prisons
a network of mechanisms
everywhere and always alert,
without interruption in space or in time.
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The Genesis of Every Observable Idea
So much
for the question of observation.
the Panopticon is a place a living laboratory;
a machine
to carry out experiments, to alter behavior,
to train or correct individuals.
To try out different punishments on prisoners,
according to
their crimes
and character
to seek the most effective ones.
For the workers,
to decide which is the best.
To try out pedagogical experiments
one could verify whether anyone could learn anything;
one could bring up different children according to different systems of thought,
The Panopticon
is a privileged place
for experiments on men,
and for analyzing
with complete certainty
the transformations
that may be obtained from them.
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The Tower and the Ring
02:20
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Tower and Ring
When we Arrange things to perfect our power
Architecture Becomes a machine
subconscious substrates
for creating and sustaining relations
To achieve this,
the prisoner
Needs an inspector:
And the inmate knows They are observed;
in the ring,
one is seen,
without ever seeing;
From the tower,
one sees all
without ever being seen.
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