Michel Foucault’s scientific contributions

... This system does not differ much from Bentham's prison and from Foucault's genealogy of power, for whom discipline was not directly exerted on the people but rather interiorised as part of a sophisticated technology of power, "a modality for its exercise, comprising a whole set of instruments, techniques, procedures, levels of application, targets; it is a 'physics' or an 'anatomy' of power, a technology." 40 The community in Milkman hence functions as a panopticon, in a clear parallel to how the society of Orwell's 1984 rely on the use of the telescreen. People police each other placing everyone under constant surveillance. ...

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On docile bodies: silence, control and surveillance as self-imposed disciplines in Anna Burns' Milkman On docile bodies: silence, control and surveillance as self- imposed disciplines in Anna Burns' Milkman