I Don't Know What is Going on Here...

...but I'm pretty sure it's CRAZY.


Foucault's panopticon
http://cartome.org/panopticon1.htm
"Hence the major effect of the Panopticon: to induce in the inmate a state of conscious and permanent visibility that assures the automatic functioning of power. 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; in short, that the inmates should be caught up in a power situation of which they are themselves the bearers."


Double Slit Experiment:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovytOBSKV8U
"The electron decided to act differently, as though it were aware that it was being watched"


Sartre's Power of the Gaze:
http://thomaslcummins.tripod.com/id124.html
"In my solitude, I rule the space around me but when my environment is intruded upon by another person I have to share it with this Other in an indeterminate manner. The freedom of the Other destabilizes my own freedom and disintegrates the preconceptions I had previously existed in. As a human being, I naturally tend to objectify the world around me but I must also presume that the Other also objectifies the world as well, including me in it. I have now become an object in the Other's vision and, because I realize this innately, I have become an object even in my own opinion. I am imprisoned in the Other's vision and, therefore, pass judgment on myself as a mere object. This causes a shameful feeling similar to if you were to spy through a keyhole and became surprised to see another eyeball staring back at you."


As soon as your back is turned, all your toys come to life.


WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?



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