In this essay for Surveillance and Society, Mark Andrejevic distinguishes usefully between panoptic surveillance (as outlined by Foucault in Discipline and Punish, drawing on Jeremy Bentham’s ideas) and the surveillance rapidly being implemented by tech companies today. The aims of these different forms of surveillance are entirely different, even antithetical. One induces internal obedience; the other aims to obliterate the idea of psychic interiority altogether.
Outside the tower
Outside the tower
Outside the tower
In this essay for Surveillance and Society, Mark Andrejevic distinguishes usefully between panoptic surveillance (as outlined by Foucault in Discipline and Punish, drawing on Jeremy Bentham’s ideas) and the surveillance rapidly being implemented by tech companies today. The aims of these different forms of surveillance are entirely different, even antithetical. One induces internal obedience; the other aims to obliterate the idea of psychic interiority altogether.