As those in power who seek only their own interest and gain continue seeking to instill panoptical fear so that the fearful ...
Discover the chilling history of the panopticon prison, imagined by Jeremy Bentham as a means to optimize organization and control without direct surveillance. Explore the impact of industrialization ...
The Haarlem Koepelgevangenis ("dome prison") is just one of three so-called panopticons in the Netherlands: circular prisons with a central watch tower, built in the 19th century and designed to ...
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.
After 20 years of being completely abandoned, the municipal administration restored the Panopticon of Ibagué ... announced that the old cells of the prison were also renovated to now function ...
All three have been closed in the past decade, as part of the country's drive to reduce its prison population, and are being "repurposed". The panopticon, first envisioned by British philosopher ...