The parade replaced triumph, presenting subjects as objects before a gaze-only power

Evidence

It was not the triumph, but the review, the ‘parade’, an ostentatious form of the examination. In it the ‘subjects’ were presented as ‘objects’ to the observation of a power that was manifested only by its gaze. They did not receive directly the image of the sovereign power; they only felt its effects – in replica, as it were – on their bodies, which had become precisely legible and docile. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 289

Categorization

• XREF: Direct hinge to the reader’s central argument: power that manifests ‘only by its gaze’ is what Oceania’s screens instantiate at domestic scale.