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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. The concept is to allow all prisoners of an institution to be observed by a single corrections officer , without the inmates knowing whether or not they are being ...
Panopticon Pandemonium: bringing to life Bentham's unrealised prison. 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.
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 ...
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Mar 17, 2015 · It was in Russia, too, that Bentham took an idea of Samuel’s and developed it into the “panopticon”, the full dimensions of which he explained in Panopticon; Or, The Inspection House (1791). The panopticon is a building of circular design intended for any institutional arrangement where the “inmates” required constant supervision ...
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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Jul 23, 2015 · Bentham never saw a panopticon built during his lifetime. A number of prisons have since incorporated panopticon elements into their design but it wasn’t until the 1920s that the closest...
Abstract. This chapter discusses the family and personal background of Jeremy Bentham and the origins of the panopticon. Bentham was born in London, England in 1748 and was the eldest son of Alicia and Jeremiah. His five brothers and sisters died in early childhood and only Samuel survived.
