Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (Foucault)
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Jump to navigationJump to searchFoucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Alan Sheridan, trans. New York: Pantheon, 1977.
MF cites Jeremy Bentham's plan for an ideal prison, the Panopticon, in which the prisoner is constantly subject to surveillance; the motif of constant surveillance is very important in dystopian fiction where the world, in a sense, becomes a prison.
