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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 Panopticon is a type of prison built with a circle of cells arranged around a guard tower. The occupants of these cells are visible to the guard, but the prisoners cannot see into the tower. They must consequently behave, as they would be under surveillance, or risk the possible consequences. [ 3 ]
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 ...
Samuel Bentham was one of two surviving children of Jeremiah Bentham. His father was an attorney, and his older brother was the philosopher Jeremy Bentham, [1] five other siblings having died in infancy or early childhood, and their mother dying in 1766.
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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.
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