Only a handful of real panopticon prisons were actually built and virtually none are presently functioning in the ways that ...

Jeremy Bentham was an 18th century English philosopher. His ideas about how we should live our lives was overshadowed by his eccentricity. Before his death in 1832, Bentham left instructions that his ...

The auto-icon of Jeremy Bentham, containing the philosopher’s skeleton in his clothes with a wax head, at University College London (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless noted) Henry ...

WHEN I first knew this great and good man, he was in his seventy-ninth year, and quite as remarkable for strength of constitution, (though he had been always ailing up to the age of threescore,) and ...

Not quite a household word (beyond academia, anyway), “panopticon” nonetheless turns up in news stories with surprising frequency—here and here, for example, and here and here. The Greek roots in its ...

The nationwide fight against the suddenly ubiquitous Flock camera. The panopticon was, at first, just a thought experiment ...