"Discipline and Punish"

             This past week we defined what it is to be a person, who deserves to be punished, the goal of punishment, discipline blockade, and discipline mechanism.
             A person has to have a capacity of being rational, emotional, physical, but I will like to add that they should be self-aware and a moral compass. The people that should be punished are those who have a rational capacity and/or committed a crime. The purpose of punishment is to correct what you did wrong, so what is the purpose of giving someone life in prison if it is meant to rehabilitate people?

Example of Discipline Mechanism

            Discipline blockade is the first image of control.This kind of sovereign power and is controlled from the outside. The example that was given was a colony. When America was controlled from the outside by Great Britain, it was easy to sever the and gain independence.
           The second image of control is discipline mechanism and it is present in today's society. This is power controlled from the inside and is visible and unverifiable, automatizes and disindividualize power. There were several examples given of this control and how power can be controlled from the inside. The stop sign example shows us the unverifiable and the disindividualize power. Even if you know that no cars are approaching you will still stop because of the consequences of being pulled over and getting a ticket. Then there is the example of the government monitoring webcams, text messages, emails, etc. We know that they can not monitor everyone at once, but we know that they do it so it has an effect on everyone's actions. I found it interesting how power organizes itself because we internalize our own actions based on the consequences.