Abstract
This work examines the effects of the contemporary American surveillance apparatus and situates these effects within the classical negative liberal tradition. Using Michele Foucault’s analysis of disciplinary power, I demonstrate how surveillance techniques, particularly those established post 9/11, affect American subjects. Further, I situate the mechanisms of power operating as a consequence of contemporary American surveillance within the classical liberal tradition. For this analysis, I draw upon negative notions of liberty such as the harm principle established by John Stuart Mill. This entire work reveals what type of power, in a Foucaldian sense, is presently functioning in America as a consequence of surveillance, in addition to determining whether this new regime of power is consistent with the most fundamental notions of American liberty.
Advisor
Weber, Désirée
Department
Political Science
Recommended Citation
Johanning, Jack, "The Soul's Response to Surveillance: A Foucaldian Investigation Into the Economy of Power Created by Contemporary Surveillance Techniques and the Conditioning of the Post 9/11 Subject" (2017). Senior Independent Study Theses. Paper 7472.
https://openworks.wooster.edu/independentstudy/7472
Publication Date
2017
Degree Granted
Bachelor of Arts
Document Type
Senior Independent Study Thesis Exemplar
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