Panoptic power embeds within daily functions rather than constraining from without

Evidence

It can in fact be integrated into any function (education, medical treatment, production, punishment); it can increase the effect of this function, by being linked closely with it; it can constitute a mixed mechanism in which relations of power (and of knowledge) may be precisely adjusted, in the smallest detail, to the processes that are to be supervised; it can establish a direct proportion between ‘surplus power’ and ‘surplus production’. In short, it arranges things in such a way that the exercise of power is not added on from the outside, like a rigid, heavy constraint, to the functions it invests, but is so subtly present in them as to increase their efficiency by itself increasing its own points of contact. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 321

Categorization

• XREF: This is the crucial extension past Bentham: power ‘subtly present’ within functions rather than external constraint — the exact logic of Oceania’s telescreen embedded in private homes and woven into day-to-day activity. — connects to: Power functions automatically when subjects believe they are always visible — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 313; Power functions like a catalyst, not a cause, in social systems; Power operates partly through perception rather than explicit verbal communication (+2 more)

Related

• Power operates as a diffuse micro-physics not localized in any single institution (similarity 0.84)
• Power functions automatically when subjects believe they are always visible (similarity 0.82)
• Power can be physically exercised without resorting to violence or ideology (similarity 0.79)
• Modern power gained force by moving from brute architecture to the subject’s own perception (similarity 0.79)
• Power and knowledge mutually constitute and imply one another (similarity 0.79)
• Disciplinary power aims at maximum effect at minimum cost and resistance. (similarity 0.78)
• Discipline is a type of power, not an institution or apparatus (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Power operates partly through perception rather than explicit verbal communication #corroborates (0.85)
• Power functions like a catalyst, not a cause, in social systems #qualifies (0.78)
• Power operates through symbolic influence while coercion abandons symbolic generalization #qualifies (0.75)
• Power functions by controlling the exceptional rather than by sanctioning #complicates (0.72)