Michel Foucault

Naissance de la prison) is a 1975 book by the French philosopher Michel Foucault.

since Foucault’s Surveiller et Punir:

Ever since Foucault’s Surveiller et Punir: Naissance de la Prison was printed in 1975, we’ve been alerted to the importance of surveillance as a main mechanism of social management within the modem world.

Hubert Tonka

Here Hubert Tonka found, as Hubert Tonka wrote in Surveiller et punir, published two years later, what Hubert Tonka thought to be ‘the perfect disciplinary apparatus that would make it possible for a single gaze to see everything constantly [from] a central point that would be both the source of light illuminating everything, and a locus of convergence for everything that must be known: a perfect eye that nothing would escape and a center towards which all gazes would be turned’.