The current research inspired by Foucault’s concept of panopticon, analyzes within the novel The Mister President the power relationships as a manifestation of a speech ruled by a logocentric structure of surveillance and denunciation. The work also studies the relevance of this text considering the presence of the panopticon in the represented continental reality as a coercive mechanism of control capable of normalizing the identity of the individuals and determine the political and interpersonal relationships.
Keywords:
surveillance, logocentrism, panopticon, discipline, force
Rojas Pachas, D. (2012). The panopticon as a model of power in the Miguel Ángel Asturias’s novel. Revista De Filosofía, 68, Pág. 155–165. Retrieved from https://revistafilosofia.uchile.cl/index.php/RDF/article/view/25351
