Modern prisons are modelled after John Stuart Mill's panopticon, and sentries can indeed see everything. |
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Foucault's panopticon kept popping into my head, with the concentric circles of observation used for prisons and experiments. |
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Initially, the panopticon was a model prison designed by the Utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham. |
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He spent 16 years of his mostly 18th century life designing the panopticon, which was to be the ideal disciplinary institution. |
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The panopticon is usually considered an abstract idea, but in fact I lived in one. |
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Related to this notion of surveillance and carceral institutional space is Foucault's notion of the panopticon, a mechanism for establishing social power. |
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How have we gotten so comfortable with the panopticon state in little more than a decade? |
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The panopticon By Jenni Fagan A teenage heroine is sent to a reformatory in this dystopian novel. |
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For example, the Stateville Correctional Center, a prison near Joliet, Ill., U. S., incorporates essential features of the panopticon. |
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The panopticon, an 18 th-century prison design dominated by a central viewing tower, called for an elimination of privacy and constant surveillance of prisoners. |
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Inferno is the use of panopticon strategies and social darwinism principles as means of governmentality to contain the dangerous class. |
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The phrase itself has sparked a rhetorical battle between techno-utopianists and postmodern flâneurs: should the city be an optimised panopticon, or a melting pot of cultures and ideas? |
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Their orientation follows the curve of the wall, so the common geometrical vanishing point of their reflexions is located in the panopticon oculus of the director's house, in the middle of the saltworks. |
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On the morning of the preview, after a champagne breakfast in the panopticon, the V. I. P.s gathered at the doors, under the watchful eye of guards in berets and dark crewneck sweaters. |
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The panopticon was never built, but it has a special place in penological history. |
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Liberation can come internally when a person goes against what the panopticon tries to stop them from doing. |
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In this manner, the Panopticon reinforces its role as arbiter of public taste. |
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This carceral city seems, superficially, reminiscent of the Utopia of unbroken visibility and unrelenting surveillance envisaged in Bentham's Panopticon. |
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Arguably, the whole public space becomes a Kemalist Panopticon as far as the bureaucrats are concerned. |
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Among his many proposals for legal and social reform was a design for a prison building he called the Panopticon. |
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Bentham became convinced that his plans for the Panopticon had been thwarted by the King and an aristocratic elite acting in their own interests. |
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But there are other, lesser-told tales about Bob Dylan at the Piping Centre, Scarlett Johanssen in the Panopticon and an unlikely yarn about Russ Abbott in the east end. |
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Back in the late 1800s, it was not uncommon for the crowds at Glasgow's Britannia Panopticon to throw rivets, nails and even horse manure at the performers. |
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