Originally, though, the panopticon was what the British political philosopher Jeremy Bentham proposed as a new model of ...

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".

Michel Foucault came to Warsaw in October 1958 ... and visible from the street where the philosopher lived – could have inspired the notion of the panopticon. Apart from Foucault’s professional life, ...