Work
Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison
Explore in the Atlas →Introduces the Panopticon as an architectural model of disciplinary power, surveillance and normalisation.
Power
Details
- Type
- Text
Classifications
- Holder
- Individual
- Source of authority
- ReasonObservation
- Subject
- Human centred
- Political position
- Subaltern resistant
- Mode of transmission
- Text drawing
- Knowledge type
- Propositional
- Epistemic cluster
- Western philosophical
Connections
- articulates Panopticism (disciplinary power)
Referenced by
- Michel Foucault authored
Sources
- Michel Foucault. Surveiller et punir: Naissance de la prison. Gallimard, 1975.
Cite this entry
First published May 2026Last revised Jul 2026
CLAD. "Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison." Atlas of Architectural Thought. CLAD, 2026. https://www.cl-ad.com.au/research/atlas/work/discipline-and-punish/. Accessed July 17, 2026.