Discover the chilling history of the panopticon prison, imagined by Jeremy Bentham as a means to optimize organization and ...

What is clear is that Discipline and Punish, at 50, has lost none of its provocative power. Nor, any of its relevance. Our ceaseless technological and social transformations continue to engender new ...

Originally, though, the panopticon was what the British political philosopher Jeremy Bentham proposed as a new model of prison architecture at the end of the 18th century. The design was ingenious. It ...

The paradigmatic form of this “power-knowledge” is the model prison or “panopticon” imagined by 19th century utilitarian philosopher, Jeremy Bentham. This prison, ideally, should be circular.

This brutality paves the way for Sinners like you to work in indentured servitude to your Panopticon – a prison city – earning your right to essential things like lying down, or frivolities ...

subterranean prison designed by somebody who once heard a reference to Jeremy Bentham’s concept of the Panopticon, but didn’t actually research it. It’s full of the worst and creepiest of ...

Prison abolition, which was once seen as ... He called his creation the “panopticon.” If this sounds incredibly creepy to you, you’re not alone! A hundred fifty years or so later ...