Discussion
Panopticon in Foucault's analysis of surveillance focusses on ............... .
Answer: B
On the official key the answer is Self-discipline.
In Discipline and Punish Foucault takes Bentham's panopticon, a ring of cells watched from a central tower that the inmates cannot see into. Because any inmate might be observed at any moment, he comes to police himself: Foucault writes that the one who is subjected to a field of visibility 'becomes the principle of his own subjection'. What the model focusses on is thus the internalisation of surveillance, self-discipline.
Corporal punishment (A) is what Foucault says discipline replaced, and confinement (D) is only the physical setting. A disciplinary society (C) is the wider social order the panopticon exemplifies, not what the design itself works on.
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