In the 1970s, the French philosopher Michel Foucault criticised the panopticon as inducing in prisoners "a state of conscious and permanent visibility that assures the automatic functioning of power".

despite quotations from Foucault on the inner sleeve and its general air of unease, Panopticon consists largely of instrumental chunks of Mogwai-style post-rock that those with long attention ...

Foucault had made his name with his 1960 work ... The paradigmatic form of this “power-knowledge” is the model prison or “panopticon” imagined by 19th century utilitarian philosopher ...

“Tolkien’s Panopticon and Foucault’s Towers: A Study on the Architecture of Power,” with Joanna Boyd-Wilhite. Towers and Strongholds in Middle-earth, ed. Cami Agan. Mythopoeic Press. (in press, ...