HW: 1. To complete the questions if they were not completed in class and share the document with me. 2. To construct a CEL: Analyze both Michel Focaults Discipline and punishment and Richard Wright's Native Son. Please analyze how Native Son illustrates Foucault's ideas and how that contributes to an argument Wright's text is making. 3. Will be submitted in class
Class today: Today: First you should get a copy of Foucault’s reading called “Panopticon” and will read and analyze that with a partner in class (no groups). They will have a set of question to answer that Then they will return back to page 16 and read it. Their goal is to make connections between the Novel and the text. Today students will be reading page 16 focusing on the last paragraph. The End: Students should answer the questions and submit those to you on paper or share them with me online. They will have a CEL on the two passages.
Questions for the Panopticon: 1. "Small captive shadows" (200). why does Foucault select this work shadow. What deeper idea could he be suggesting about humanity?
2. "They are like so many cages, so many small theatres, in which each actor is alone, perfectly individualized and constantly visible" (200). How does this idea work or connect to Native Son? How does the media/news do this for people of color? How does school do this?
3. Foucault discusses how the Panopticon is a shift from a less human way of imprisoning, "to enclose, to deprive of light and to hide" and now only one of those works (200). This sounds like a more human situation, yet it is not? Locate a specific historical or current event where something is made to appear more human, but really goes to entrap or oppress more?
4. "Visibility is a trap" (200). How is visibility a trap and is how is this seen in Native Son? How is this true in real life? Give a concrete example.
5. "He is seen, but he does not see; he is the object of information, never a subject in communication" (200). Please connect this to a concrete quote of Freire's. Explain the connection.
6. "So to arrange things that the surveillance is permanent in its effects, even if it is discontinuous in its action; that the perfection of power should tend to render its actual exercise unnecessary; that this architectural apparatus should be a machine for creating and sustaining a power relation independent of the person who exercises it;" (201). What does this quote mean? Particularly what does the last sentence mean? Please apply this to a real world situation.
7. Locate a quote from the last page and explain why you feel it is important.