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This computer rendered video shows how Bentham's panopticon would have appeared if built. Section view of a panopticon prison drawn by Willey Reveley, circa 1791. The cells are marked with (H); a skylight (M) was to provide light and ventilation. [1] Plan view of the panopticon prison, by Reveley, 1791 [2] The word panopticon derives from the ...
The Panopticon is a type of prison building designed by English philosopher Jeremy Bentham in the late 1700's. The concept of the design is to allow an observer to observe ( -opticon ) all ( pan- ) prisoners without the prisoners being able to tell if they are being observed or not, thus conveying a "sentiment of an invisible omniscience ."
The ultimately abortive proposal for a panopticon prison to be built in England was one among his many proposals for legal and social reform. [32] But Bentham spent some sixteen years of his life developing and refining his ideas for the building and hoped that the government would adopt the plan for a National Penitentiary appointing him as ...
The term, which is a portmanteau word consisting of ban and panopticon, takes its name from Michel Foucault's interpretation of the panopticon as used in Discipline and Punish and the notion of ban from international relations [2] to describe a situation where observation is used as a disciplinary tool, namely by creating profiles for people ...
The Panopticon, a novel by Jenni Fagan; Panopticon Software, a data visualization software company; Panopticon, a book for the Eclipse Phase role playing game; The Panopticon Chamber, a location on the planet Gallifrey in the science fiction series Doctor Who
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Willey Reveley (1760–1799) was an 18th-century English architect, born at Newton Underwood near Morpeth, Northumberland. [1] He was a pupil of Sir William Chambers, [2] and was trained at the Royal Academy Schools. In 1781-2 he was employed (under Chambers) as assistant clerk of works at Somerset House.
A Rwandan-born Ohio man was arrested on Thursday on charges he engaged in a three-decade scheme to conceal his involvement in the African nation's 1994 genocide to enter the United States as a ...