a system for separating the normal and the abnormal à. This investigation enables us to rediscover one of the conditions of the emergence of the human sciences: the great nineteenth-century effort in discipline and normalization (p. 61). Foucault is fascinated by the concept of the Panopticon, a theoretical form of surveillance used to ensure that prisoners could at all times be watched without the watchers themselves being seen. Although he is particularly interested in the concept of the Panopticon as applied to prisoners, he is also fascinated in how this same idea of control is applied to the population at large. |
