Concept of governance as surveillance over wealth and behaviour of all peoples (14 окт 1770 г. – 2 май 1840 г.)

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"In the formulations of the science of police that were produced over [the late 18th & early 19th century], Foucault has argued... the family... typically served as the model for...government which... concerning itself with 'the wealth and behaviour of each and all', aspired to subject the population of the sate to 'a form of surveillance and control as attentive as that of the head of a family over his household and his goods' (Foucault 1978: 92)... Just as remarkable, however, is famous English reformer James Silk Buckingham's persistence in maintaining that the exercise of such surveillance and control need not be...any different in principle, when applied to the moral or cultural well being of the population..."

Source: Tony Bennett. The Birth of the Museum: History, Theory, Politics (1995). Pg. 18

*Time period approximate, see point in timeline about James Silk Buckingham's design for the city