Superpenepticon


 * Superpanopticon** is the panopticon effect enhanced by the evolution of technology.

For example, the superpanopticon effect consists of situations wherein internet users willingly participate in online activities thereby 'sharing' their privacy with companies, data mining agencies and other users.


 * Computer databases bring panoptic principles out the jail and into mainstream society to operate as a ‘superpanopticon’, reconfiguring once more the constitution of the subject.
 * The database extends writing, according to Poster, removing it further from any one ‘author’ than convention, non-electronic writing does.
 * The database adds both a new mobility and durability to writing.
 * The database ‘text’ is no one’s and everyone’s- and yet it is owned by some institution’s power.
 * Power is extended effortlessly- this is because subjects constancy participate in their own surveillance by making cell phone calls, automated bank transactions, Internet bookings and so on.
 * Therefore individuals re plugged into circuits of their own panoptic control, making a mockery of theories of social action.
 * The superpanpoticon constitutes objects, individuals with dispersed identities who may remain unaware of how those identities are construed by the computer.
 * Modern surveillance has everything to do with individuation

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Panopticism Michel Foucault

=Works Cited=

Webster, Frank, Raimo Blom, Erkki Karvonen, Harri Melin, Karrle Nordenstreng, and Puoskari Ensio. __The Information Society Reader__. 2nd ed. London: Rouledge Student Readers, 2002. 388-389.