Foucault Panoptican

Michael Foucault created the concept of power. The concept of power has three characteristics: network or field, cannot abolish power, only rearrange it, and power creates locations of counter-power. He also stated that there are two categories of control and they are discipline blockade and discipline mechanism. Discipline blockade is when the power is centralized and it imposes order and control from the outside. Discipline mechanism is when the “prisoners” are seen but not able to see, the power is imposed from the inside. This whole idea stemmed from actions Foucault thinks should be taken place against the seventeenth-century plague.