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

Discover the chilling history of the panopticon prison, imagined by Jeremy Bentham as a means to optimize organization and ...

Stateville was built in 1925 as a maximum-security prison with state-of-the-art panopticon structures where every cell could be observed from a central guard station.

From the time she entered her prison cell Thursday morning (5 June), it only took Nadya Tolokonnikova, a co-founder of Pussy Riot, about 15 minutes to start screaming. It was a high-pitched ...

Call it what it is: a panopticon presidency. President Trump’s plan to fuse government power with private surveillance tech to build a centralized, national citizen database is the final step in ...

Nadya Tolokonnikova to Stage 10-Day Performance from Inside Prison Cell The first durational work by the Pussy Riot co-founder. Art May 21, 2025 2.4K ...

In the Panopticon, inmates always know a guard could be watching but never if one truly is. This is the key to the prison's power, argued French philosopher Michel Foucault: it becomes omniscient ...

In 1785 English philosopher Jeremy Bentham designed the perfect prison: Cells circle a tower from which an unseen guard can observe any inmate at will. As far as a prisoner knows, at any given ...

The panopticon at Kilmainham Gaol is one of the most famous examples of a panopticon prison in the world. It was built in the early 19th century and was used to house prisoners during the Irish ...

The paradigmatic form of this “power-knowledge” is the model prison or “panopticon” imagined by 19th century utilitarian philosopher, Jeremy Bentham. This prison, ideally, should be circular.

Originally, though, the panopticon was what the British political philosopher Jeremy Bentham proposed as a new model of prison architecture at the end of the 18th century. The design was ingenious. It ...