Question 1

What is the best book to start with?

Accepted Answer

Discipline and Punish, the opening and the chapter 'Panopticism', in Sheridan. You see the historical method and the diagram together, so the famous sentences have a job.

Question 2

What is the most famous quote?

Accepted Answer

This library does not measure fame, and it does not rank lines by how often they are shared. The first line it files for Michel Foucault that is not marked Questionable or Misattributed is “Where there is power, there is resistance.” (The History of Sexuality, volume 1, Paraphrase or translation).

Question 3

What is the most misquoted line?

Accepted Answer

None of the lines this library files for Michel Foucault is marked Misattributed or Questionable. That is a fact about these cards, not a certificate that every popular sentence is theirs.

Question 4

What is one key idea, in a sentence?

Accepted Answer

Disciplinary power: Timetables, examinations, and norms produce a subject. The panopticon is a diagram of that production.