Utilitarian Biopolitics

Miedos y olores. Emociones y sentidos en una cárcel de varones

“…La vida afectiva responde a una actividad cognitiva ligada a una interpretación del individuo de la situación en la que está inmerso; así lo explica David Le Breton (2012) al hablar de las emociones, las cuales, dice el autor, están íntimamente relacionadas con el significado otorgado a un evento deter- La cárcel representa un dispositivo esencial de privación de la libertad para someter y disciplinar los cuerpos y las mentes (Foucault, 2012). La reclusión se inserta en una concepción controvertida del poder -la biopolítica-que aprehende a los seres humanos como unos organismos moldeables y desechables (Brunon-Ernst, 2012;Lemke, 2017;Elmore e Islekel, 2022).…”

Introduction: Literary and Critical Approaches to Panopticism

“…Bentham himself believed the Panopticon to be transitory and that it would no longer be necessary once its functions had been performed and appropriate utilitarian behaviour became generalized. 14 As for Foucault, he sees in the Panopticon a diagram of disciplinary power meant to spread to the whole society. Although the architecture provides a striking, memorable image that makes tangible or graspable complex social phenomena, the latter are not bound by its walls.…”

“…Similarly, while Foucault has been taken to task for the partial reading he offered of Bentham's scheme, his chapter on panopticism must be understood within the book's overall strategy, 30 and it has been established that Foucault's knowledge and understanding of Bentham was not limited to the letters on the Panopticon. 31 As feminists promptly noted, the inmate, like the inspector, in Foucault's account, is a generic 'he', 32 and a significant share of recent work has consisted precisely in highlighting differential experiences of surveillance, reintroducing gender, but also race and social class. Quaireau's article highlights gender as well as social class in its discussion of panopticism as the internalization of the metropolitan gaze by women travel writers.…”

Le gouvernement des normes. Jeremy Bentham et les instruments de régulation post-moderne

“…Penser les politiques comportementales en contexte au-delà de l'intérêt historique du concept de législation indirecte qui a influencé la pensée de Foucault en biopolitique 50 , et qui se retrouve dans tout un éventail d'instruments de régulation contemporains, l'objectif principal du présent article a été de faire le bilan de la législation indirecte considérée comme un système de contrôle, qui est avant tout normatif et qui produit des effets, c'est-à-dire, qui est mis en oeuvre, suivi et appliqué dans une communauté donnée, sans qu'il soit nécessairement fait appel à la force contraignante de la loi.…”