Introduction: 40 Years after Discipline and Punish

Authors

  • Jörg Bernardy Zeppelin University & The School of Life Berlin
  • Frieder Vogelmann University of Bremen, Institute for Intercultural and International Studies

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.v0i0.5338

Keywords:

power, discipline, panopticon, surveillance, prison, digital control

Abstract

This introduction diagnoses two tendencies among Foucaultian scholars with regard to Michel Foucault’s Discipline and Punish: While the book was initially enthusiastically embraced and its central concepts – above all “discipline” and “panopticism” – were used almost too frequently, these very concepts were often thought to be superseded by Foucault’s own development in the governmentality lectures and beyond. The articles in the special issue, however, demonstrate that Discipline and Punish, read carefully with neither uncritical enthusiasm nor progressivist dismissal, has still a lot to offer for today’s critical theory and cultural analysis. 

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Published

2017-08-07

How to Cite

Bernardy, J., & Vogelmann, F. (2017). Introduction: 40 Years after Discipline and Punish. Foucault Studies, (23), 4–9. https://doi.org/10.22439/fs.v0i0.5338

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Special Issue on Discipline and Punish Today