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The Panopticon Writings Jeremy Bentham
Publisher: Verso

€�Making Sense of Privacy and Publicity”. Jeremy Bentham is perhaps best known for being the originator of the panopticon prison, and for having requested that his body be preserved after his death; Bentham's auto-icon sits on display at UCL to this day, where it on both Bentham's published works and his unpublished manuscripts—which will supersede the inadequate and incomplete eleven-volume edition of Bentham's writings published between 1838 and 1843 by his literary executor, John Bowring. In this novel the Panopticon became electrical with the invention of the telescreen, a two-way television which allowed the state almost total visual and auditory access to the homes, streets and workplaces of the citizens. Circular in form, the prison comprised of cells arranged around a central point occupied by a guard. The denizens of Chez Panopticon learned during the gestation of the little book to clear out when I tell them to. Despite the show's sub-par writing and inconceivable story lines, it grabbed and maintained our attention for six seasons, all the while alluding to a breadth of analysis that it may or may not have meant to conjure or deserve. The Panopticon creates a consciousness of permanent visibility as a form of power, where no bars, chains, and heavy locks are necessary for domination any more. Bentham, The Panopticon Writings “Hence the major effect of the Panopticon: to induce in the inmate a state of conscious and permanent visibility that assures the automatic functioning of power. Building on the writings of Michel Foucault, contemporary social critics often assert that technology has allowed for “disciplinary” society and the pervasive inclination to observe and normalise. In Discipline and Punish, Foucault invoked The is an ideal architectural figure of modern disciplinary power. Writing in the 19th Century Jeremy Bentham designed a radical new form of prison the panopticon. I am long accustomed to silence and solitude when I work.