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Foucault wouldn't be surprised at all at the prevalence of open-plan offices.

• acephal 7y ago
  Or JIRA and its abuses
• lioeters 7y ago
  The association of open-plan offices to the Panopticon: > ..The fact that the inmates cannot know when they are being watched means that they are motivated to act as though they are being watched at all times. Thus, the inmates are effectively compelled to regulate their own behaviour. > ..Foucault used the panopticon as metaphor for the modern disciplinary society in Discipline and Punish. > He argued that discipline had replaced the pre-modern society of kings, and that the panopticon should not be understood as a building, but as a mechanism of power and a diagram of political technology. > ..In the landmark surveillance narrative Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), George Orwell said: "there was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment ... you had to live ... in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinised."
  • nkingsy 7y ago
    Orwell was way off. Our every movement is scrutinized even when it’s dark.
• three_seagrass 7y ago
  Foucault would also argue that open-office is the best office plan. His ideas of the power structure behind discipline reach far beyond what the penal system implemented them as.