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This plan of Jeremy Bentham's panopticon prison was drawn by Willey Reveley in 1791. The panopticon is a design of institutional building with an inbuilt system of control, originated by the English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century.
Panopticon Pandemonium is a computer game which brings to life the complexities and ambiguities of Bentham's prison scheme. It sees the construction—virtually—of a working panopticon for the first time.
Panopticon, architectural form for a prison, the drawings for which were published by Jeremy Bentham in 1791. It consisted of a circular, glass-roofed, tanklike structure with cells along the external wall facing toward a central rotunda; guards stationed in the rotunda could keep all the inmates.
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Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon is a design for a prison that allows for the constant surveillance of prisoners. The design features two circular towers, one inside the other, the outer one containing cells that face the inner tower from which guards, who would be invisible to prisoners, would have an unobstructed view of each cell. What is ...
Nov 24, 2018 · Bentham’s ideas about the Panopticon were quite detailed, covering the central concept all the way through to details such as the size of the cells, where exactly the staircase should be located, how meals will be distributed. For example, he added exact measures for the cells in the prison and for the inspector’s lodge.
Bentham ( 1995) used the Greek word Panopticon – meaning “all seeing” – to capture the distinctive feature of the prison design, the possibility of maintaining control and providing reform by creating a situation wherein a prisoner perceives him or herself to be under constant surveillance, inescapably visible to the prison guard.
Jeremy Bentham, an English philosopher and social theorist in the mid-1700s, invented a social control mechanism that would become a comprehensive symbol for modern authority and discipline in the western world: a prison system called the Panopticon.
