One of the most influential philosophical works of the 20th century, Discipline and Punish is unsettlingly prescient in our ...

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

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, ...

At Galerie Noah Klink, Berlin, the artist’s works toy with the interplay of vulnerability, exploitation and scrutiny that ...

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".

He called his creation the “panopticon.” If this sounds incredibly creepy to you, you’re not alone! A hundred fifty years or so later, the philosopher Michel Foucault appropriated ...