The Panopticon design involved a central watch tower, from which a single prison officer could observe the goings-on in the ...

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Jail experts say the panopticon robs inmates of dignity and increases anxiety by putting their distress on display for everyone else to see.

Ridley Scott will executive produce a thriller called “Panopticon” that is based on a script that landed on the Black List in 2017, and AGC Studios will finance and co-produce the film, the ...

George Sikharulidze’s feature debut “Panopticon” is, the director says, a very personal movie. The film, screening as a world premiere in Karlovy Vary Film Festival’s main competition, is ...

The American Police State, much like The Prisoner ’s Village, is a metaphorical panopticon, a circular prison in which the inmates are monitored by a single watchman situated in a central tower.

In 1926, Cuba saw the construction of the Presidio Modelo, a prison based on the Panopticon building design. The idea was that a guard could stand in the central tower and watch all of the ...

Academics of a certain age will remember when you couldn’t take a seminar without hearing about Foucault and the Panopticon. The panopticon was Jeremy Bentham’s design, intended for a prison. As I ...

For Foucault, the panopticon illustrated the functioning of the "disciplinary apparatuses" characteristic of modern societies—a category in which he included not only prisons, asylums, and ...

This is a logical extension, he says, of a proposal by 18th-century philosopher Jeremy Bentham, who suggested a prison arranged as a circle of cells around a tower. The guards lived in the tower ...