Jaylen Brown revisits his old campus at UC Berkeley and delivers a speech on Michel Focault’s theory of Panopticism. Full speech: • Jaylen Brown at The Be...
JB you're prob not gonna read this but this is why you're my favorite hooper. JB the bball player, educator, public speaker, community leader, social justice advocate, and fashion designer. The Celtics are blessed to have such a multi-faceted individual leading the team
this is most superfluous empty nothing burger ive ever heard in 27 years on earth. im envious, cause even I couldn't cook up a nothing burger this crispy and this well done.
In a world of dynamic normality JB now has a platform to share his intelligent thoughts and opinions, breaking the hegemony of a society that goes back to the original Americans. Berkeley is a home of radicals and JB is a radically different hooper... and he's pretty good at that too 🏀
Over the last few weeks I've been reading 'Go Up For Glory" by Bill Russell. Although I grew up across the Atlantic Ocean and did not experience this up close, I can see where you draw inspiration from him as a human being. And I think that we can all learn something from Bill Russell's pride, principles and views on life. Great presentation, Jaylen! Love to see you embrace these topics in society!
This is beautiful! It's sad more people, especially kids, will never have an opportunity for this type of education. Heal the trauma Find peace All Love
A panopticon is a circular prison where cells are located at the periphery and a watchtower at the center. Prisoners can be seen at any time by a guard at the center, but they themselves cannot see the guard. By not knowing if or when they are watched, yet knowing that they can be watched at any time, the inmate automatically conforms to good behavior.
I respect you man. Good stuff Jaylen Brown for speaking up at Berkeley about Panopticism. It is something I face currently in my daily life in the Philippines as a Filipino-American where certain aspects of me unknown to people become a facet for discrimination and derogatory overuse. Over time I developed a hate and contention towards these sentiments by people, including people closest to me, continuously fighting for something they know isn't sane or active to do but continually push back to remain in power. It is abusive. I don't deserve this and so don't they, and they are the social constructs confounding, confining us.
This is a great video and I love to see people of all backgrounds embracing philosophy, but I feel this is missing a (pretty clear) class and economic lens - one major reason athletes are 'trained' to be silent is because one of the key functions of professional sports (especially in the US), in their current orientation, is to launder the reputation of billionaires and corporations (sponsors), while serving as a distraction for working class individuals (if you're spending >50% of your leisure time consuming sports and advertising, it's much less likely that you will take the proactive steps to become educated and/or conscious of a range of social and economic issues). That is why the owners decided Kaepernick had to go - the ruling class need sport to be entirely free of meaningful political ideas and actions, otherwise it risks not serving its purpose (from the perspective of the powerful).
YES, THIS YOUNG AND BEAUTIFUL LIL BROTHER IS HELPING TO BREAK THAT "TRAINED CYCLE" FOLLOWING IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF OUR OUTSPOKEN ANCESTORS: MUHAMMAD ALI, MALCOLM X, MLK, PAUL ROBESON, W.E.B. DUBOIS, ETC.
I agree. And I admire Jaylen for daring to openly discuss that allowing any subset of people to obtain too much power through resource hoarding will lead to others being subjected to a will other than their own. People get killed for speaking this shit - takes a lot of guts to do so.
Jaylen I needed an essay topic due this week about ethical issues in social work and I was listening to this when playing 2K before writing that paper. Heard that story about you getting pulled over at the start and I'm going to write my essay on this, thanks man
my guy tf are you talkin about. this is the dumbest thing ive ever watched, dude wants to be intelligent worse than Tatum wants to be every other nba player
PLS. STOP. YOURE BARELY. COHERENT. AND. ONLY. ON. STAGE. CUZ. YOU. CAN DUNK. I. CAN. WRITE. A. BETTER. THESIS. AND. HAVE. A BETTER. LEFT. HAND. AND. I DO. CONSTRUCTION
Marshawn Lynch is less eloquent but has walked this talk as a CAL alum coming back and continually supporting his community …kept up a 3.5 GPA at Berkeley out of Oakland Tech HS. Nagee Harris was from Richmond raised with Black Panther activism…only football player that Nick Saban ever called and asked to please come back after Nagee left Tuscaloosa and went back to California for 2 weeks after Saban used demeaning and disrespectful language with him. Nagee walked away…when Saban apologized…Nagee led the Crimson Tide to a Naty. The Bay Area has a rich history of political activism and the heart of it in Berkeley and Oakland. Jaylen came to the right place. Let’s hope he returns to finish his degree and more. He’s like the Andrew Luck of the NBA. Both exceptional athletes but even more exceptional thinkers. Andrew is getting a masters at Stanford now. Jaylen has so much to offer in leadership👏👏👏
This was an extremely insightful and informative speech on panopticism and methods of social control. I actually believe the scope of it goes even further and these concepts of surveillance and influenced conformity have multiple channels they develop through. One of the primary intents of mass media and pop entertainment is the homogenization of personality and interest. As the internet continues to develop though we are beginning to see a decentralization of media and greater agency given to individual creators. However there is also a pushback to this as well, and that mainstream homogenization continues to pervade, adapting to use social media to influence and encourage altered social norms. The notion of individuality is under a sort of constant quiet assault, attempting to wear it down bit by bit until the path of least resistance becomes preferable simply because all the alternatives have been so discouraged and inconvenienced. However, uh, you might wanna check your facts on that part about hydrogen bro, almost NONE of what you said in that part was correct JB my guy I was fuckin dying listening to it man, everything else was great but you're gonna want to workshop that one a little 🤣
Amazing… short to the point yet very profound and you are very articulate in this presentation brother! Appreciate you ! Owe congrats on the Celtics championship win!
Love it! What struck with me with Foucault was the idea that structures, once built, fill themselves, in Madness & Civilization. Foucault's exploration of how in Europe, old colonies for disease evolved in housing for unseemly people (including prostitutes), and finally into Mental Health Institutions. It is a similar idea to Field of Dreams - if you build it, they will come... To take this and apply it to controlled athletic spaces vs the joy of pickup sports. The evolution of elite spaces for highly trained athletes, from the first Olympics to Colosseums and combat pits to todays arenas, at schools as well, shared by multiple sports with owners, & trading rights, also used for mega concerts, and political gatherings. What does this do to the pickup games, sport & music as fun, And political discussion as an exercise in thought and expression between friends and neighbours ? The power and dominance of the Mega spaces vs the joy small intimate exchanges in sport, music and politics ?
youth sports camps really should replace media training with how to own, operate your own media content. If you own or have a share of ownership of the platforms through which media portrayal occurs, then equation of empowerment changes. i can see more NBA players owning their own production companies, taking part in operations like the Athletic, operating direct to the audience endeavors like their own channels/productions. The panopticon is then co-pted by distributed representation. When you control the camera, the lens is no longer restricting you.
Really interesting talk had no idea JB would be teaching me about panopticism. Unfortunately that stuff about hydrogen was dead wrong but doesnt take much away from a really interesting message
JB you should look into Marshall Mcluhan hot vs cold media and how the written word has constrained our thinking in the same way dynamic normalization has.
I love what you are talking about but at Times the music level was annoying while you were speaking . I wanted to make out and understand everything you had to say . I have to watch more of your videos .Thank you !
To be fair, he is indeed a remarkable intellectual sportsman. However, his intense competitiveness on the field sometimes leads to dubious strategies that could inadvertently inflict harm on his adversaries.
If you really want to change your community, you need to run for office, brother. That is where words become action, and ideals face down reality. Obama was the blueprint- get in, improve things, and get out. Stay blessed.
JB…life long C’s fan here. I love that your approach to dialogue in your community. I disagree with your Dinosaur v frog analogy. The dinosaur is extinct because of progressive evolution beyond what the earth could support. The frog survived due to biological efficiency and lack of need for change despite the changing landscape around them. To me you are describing survival of the frog “conservative Christian values” in an ever changing dynamic progressive world.
3:53 Most of what he says here is incorrect, although I understand he is trying to make an analogy. There has been no confirmation that life was on Mars, yet. There isn't exactly an element of life, but life as we know it on earth is mostly carbon-based (maybe entirely, I am not an expert though, and the outliers are strange things like single-celled organisms that breathe in sulfur). Hydrogen certainly is not the element of life, and its existence in a given place does not imply that the place is hospitable for life. The sun has plenty of hydrogen and is completely inhospitable to life (likely even unknown forms of life). Black holes, surely many of which are composed largely of hydrogen just like everything else in the universe, must also be inhospitable to life. All that said, the initial explanation of panopticism is a good one.
This is why JB is the President of NBPA. I’m not a Celtics fan, never will be. But I am glad that JB will win his first chip next week. Well Spoken, Figure for all races to look up to, not just black folk. Keep going!
