The Theory Toolbox by Jeffrey Nealon & SUSAN SEARLS GIROUX

Author:Jeffrey Nealon & SUSAN SEARLS GIROUX
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-7425-7051-1
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Submission to the demands of the working day is no longer garnered through surveillance and disciplining but through voyeuristic seduction and desire, the promise of wealth and fame just around the corner. As “sociologist” Jennifer Lopez reminds us: “Don’t be fooled by the rocks that I got, I’m just, I’m just Jenny from the block.” With a little ingenuity and a lot of luck, anybody can supposedly make it.

Take a look at figures 8.1 and 8.2. How do these spaces—a correctional facility on one hand and a movie theater on the other—shape normative behavior and social relations? What or who in each case is watching or being watched, and with what subjective and social effects? How might the prison and the theater be said to represent synecdochally panoptic and synoptic societies respectively?

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