Panopticon

In Focaults "Panopticon," he remarks on Jeremy Bentham's idea of the Panopticon. He establishes his own ideas of how it generates an economically cheap power that fills in the gap with the "technology" of discipline. The Panotpticon offers cheap power because it allows maximum control with a small amount of controllers to be put in charge, thus minimizing anything to go wrong on either end of the spectrum. Discipline and disciplinary action have made technological advances as history has progressed over the years, each century offering alternatives and adapting to the present. The goal is to create a society filled with people that suited to live in every day life; however, as with many things in life there are always going to be the outliers, those he need correction. Focaults discussion on discipline and power reveals to the reader how intertwined they are with everyday life: In schools, in prisons, factories, and hospital. Power has become the basis of life, it is an integral function to sustaining the "norm."