So after 18 century, surveillance or the panopticism architecture had been kept filtering into the European society. The whole society had become a massive panopticism. Even thought there is no more physical central tower, the surveillance is still operated by the police. Different from dictatorship in ancient time, the surveillance in 18 century Europe came from all sides. It had different level and surveillance was fragmentary. People at that time can easily feel that they are under supervision but cannot figure out who’s monitoring them. In Foucault’s view, the surveillance at 18 century kept giving pressure to the society but at the same time, it is invisible. Thus people cannot counterattack. The result was that the surveillance began to make brazen attempt to supervise the whole
So after 18 century, surveillance or the panopticism architecture had been kept filtering into the European society. The whole society had become a massive panopticism. Even thought there is no more physical central tower, the surveillance is still operated by the police. Different from dictatorship in ancient time, the surveillance in 18 century Europe came from all sides. It had different level and surveillance was fragmentary. People at that time can easily feel that they are under supervision but cannot figure out who’s monitoring them. In Foucault’s view, the surveillance at 18 century kept giving pressure to the society but at the same time, it is invisible. Thus people cannot counterattack. The result was that the surveillance began to make brazen attempt to supervise the whole