Who has the Surveillance Power?
Jed's Philosophy Corner
English - October 16, 2021 10:34 - 17 minutes - 20 MBPhilosophy Society & Culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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In this talk I explore surveillance and power, showing how the two work together. I introduce and discuss the Foucault's view of the Panopticon and the power it exercises over individuals. I then show how this style of power is not necessarily the status quo of our current era, and perhaps even how technology has shifted the direction of power. Instead of the few watching and controlling the many, it is the many who hold power over the few.