The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: Constitutional Code, Vol. 1

Bentham, Jeremy; Rosen, Frederick; Burns, J. H.

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“…A similar tendency can be detected in Foucault's biopolitics lectures. Contrary to Foucault's argument (: 67), Bentham did not base his constitutional code explicitly upon his previous model of the Panopticon, and indeed the only references to the Panopticon in this code appear in footnotes dealing with prisons and with early technologies such as parliamentary conversation tubes (see Bentham, ). However, while the details of Foucault's reading of Bentham are not always accurate, the broader thrust of his argument is more convincing: that the Panopticon is more than an architecture of power that can be broadened in any straightforward way into a theory of ‘surveillance society’.…”

Section: Panopticism and Liberalismmentioning

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The Governmentalities of Neoliberalism: Panopticism, Post-Panopticism and beyond

Gane

2012

The Sociological Review

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This paper draws on the writings of Michel Foucault, in particular his lectures on biopolitics at the Collège de France from 1978–79, to examine liberalism and neoliberalism as governmental forms that operate through different models of surveillance. First, this paper re‐reads Foucault's Discipline and Punish in the light of his analysis of the art of liberal government that is advanced through the course of these lectures. It is argued that the Panopticon is not just an architecture of power centred on discipline and normalization, as is commonly understood, but a normative model of the relation of the state to the market which, for Foucault, is ‘the very formula of liberal government’. Second, the limits of panopticism, and by extension liberal governance, are explored through analysis of Gilles Deleuze's account of the shift from disciplinary to ‘control’ societies, and Zygmunt Bauman's writings on individualization and the ‘Synopticon’. In response to Deleuze and Bauman, the final section of this paper returns to Foucault's lectures on biopolitics to argue that contemporary capitalist society is characterized not simply by the decline of state powers (the control society) or the passing down of responsibilities from the state to the individual (the individualization thesis), but by the neoliberal marketization of the state and its institutions; a development which is underpinned by a specific form of governmentality. In conclusion, a four‐fold typology of surveillance is advanced: surveillance as discipline, as control, as interactivity, and as a mechanism for promoting competition. It is argued that while these types of surveillance are not mutually exclusive, they are underpinned by different governmentalities that can be used to address different aspects of the relationship between the state and the market, and with this the social and cultural logics of contemporary forms of market capitalism more broadly.

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Section: Panopticism and Liberalismmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Governmentalities of Neoliberalism: Panopticism, Post-Panopticism and beyond

Gane

2012

The Sociological Review

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“…35 But in Book II, Chapter X on`Defensive Force' he is scathing about the militia system in operation in England and the United States, because the compulsion involved is counter-productive and the force ineective. 36 In this extended treatment of the issue he favours professional forces ± providing for compulsory enlistment only in cases of necessity. If conscription is necessary it should be equitable.…”

Section: Perspectives On Military Service In Classical English Liberamentioning

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Liberalism and the Obligation to Military Service

Carter

1998

Political Studies

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This article argues that liberalism's failure to address systematically the question of citizens' obligation to military service is indicative of its wider failure to develop a satisfactory concept of citizenship. Whilst liberalism's individualist bias, implicit class assumptions and hope of transcending war have all contributed to neglect of citizen duty to bear arms, the most interesting reason, in relation to contemporary republican critiques, is liberalism's inadequate view of citizenship. This article examines the different approaches of the classical English liberals Locke, Bentham and J. S. Mill to international relations, forms of national defence and the role (if any) of citizens, and considers very briefly the views of some contemporary liberal theorists on military service and justified resistance to the draft. Finally, it comments on the implicit reliance of liberal polities on non-liberal models of citizenship, and the need for a coherent liberal concept of citizenship which includes an examination of responsibility for defence.

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“…A perfectly rational institution would be laid out on paper, with procedures specified and no expense spared to ensure their full application; a utilitarian approach of which Bentham's blueprint for the Panopticon is the best-known example. This was intended to be a building which could house factories, prisons, workhouses, and lunatic asylums alike in which professional experts could keep regular watch over individual inmates, thus inducing in them more socially acceptable behaviour (Bentham, 1843;Foucault, 1977). In practice, the demands placed on those institutions which approximated to the form were too great for the full rigor of such an intricately-designed regime to be economically viable (Ignatieff, 1978).…”

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“…An illustration of this principle is the argument that requiring private corporations to release information concerning, for example, health and safety or levels of pollution is a more effective than direct government regulation as a means of controlling their activity (Stevenson, 1980). Even Bentham's Panopticon, the archetype of the mechanistic organization, contained provision for an observation tower which was to be used not only to supervise the inmates but also to allow outsiders to inspect the working of the whole institution (Bentham, 1843). The ethical core is provided by impersonality, whereby rules are designed and enforced without being subject to the particular influence of individuals (Perrow, 1986, p. 47).…”

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Information and the mechanistic metaphor: The place of information in organizational thought

Kamm

1995

Systems Practice

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The purpose of this paper is to examine the possibilities for extending organisational metaphors into the area of information systems. The mechanistic metaphor is used as a relevant example because analysing the assumptions behind it offers a particularly revealing insight into common assumptions in the field of management studies and information systems. These assumptions were developed in a specific historical context, that of the development of bureaucratic forms in a government and industry and the acceptance of what Weber described as "'instrumental rationality.'" Three elements of a characteristically mechanistic view of information management are identified: corporate ownership of information, a formal division of information work and a definition of the nature of information as data whose meaning is noncontroversial. It is argued that this view of information is too restricted to allow for creative development of information use. but that the corporate ownership of information continues to be relevant because of the notion of formal rights which has been developed from it.

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The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: Constitutional Code, Vol. 1

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The Governmentalities of Neoliberalism: Panopticism, Post-Panopticism and beyond

The Governmentalities of Neoliberalism: Panopticism, Post-Panopticism and beyond

Liberalism and the Obligation to Military Service

Information and the mechanistic metaphor: The place of information in organizational thought

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