In class this week, we discussed Michel Foucault’s concept of power and the categories of control, the images of discipline. The two categories of control are discipline mechanism and discipline blockade and discipline mechanism. Discipline blockade is like a plague town, which has centralized power, and imposes order and control from the outside. On the other hand, discipline mechanism is like a panopticon. A panopticon has decentralized power, and imposes order and control from the inside. Examples of panopticons would be hospitals, schools, and prisons, Discussing these images of discipline made me realize that we actually live in a panopticon. Until now, I never really thought about what what we lived in besides a democratic government.  Then, when we talked about how prisons are set up like panopticons, I really began to realize that we live in a panopticon. When we discussed the illustration of the inside set up of the prison, it was said that each of the prisoners in each cell was being watched by someone in the middle. However, the prisoners were not able to see whoever is watching them. This made me understand how panoptic discipline is visible and unverifiable. The stop sign example really fascinated me when discussing this topic. The fact that even when there’s nobody else at a stop sign, people still stop out of habit, knowing that the police could come out of nowhere and give you a ticket. I really never really thought about this scenario when thinking that “someone is always watching.”