Panopticon

The bunker itself suggests a wired version of a model prison designed by the 18th-century British philosopher Jeremy Bentham that he called the Panopticon, which allows a guardian to watch inmates who, because of the structure's design, can never see that they're being observed.

NYT > Technology 2009

My latest O'Reilly Net column, "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Panopticon" is up.

Boing Boing: March 3, 2002 - March 9, 2002 Archives 2002

Another worrying consequence touched on by Mayer-Schonberger is our mass participation and compliance in the creation of a temporal Panopticon – in other words our collusion in the ability of institutions to store and always see our actions at any moment in time.

December « 2009 « Innovation Cloud 2009

Another worrying consequence touched on by Mayer-Schonberger is our mass participation and compliance in the creation of a temporal Panopticon – in other words our collusion in the ability of institutions to store and always see our actions at any moment in time.

Delete, not fade away and radiate? « Innovation Cloud 2009

The genius of the Panopticon was the ease and stealth with which it stole into the collective consciousness and set up permanent residence as a means of "fighting crime" and "protecting ourselves."

Charles Shaw: Inside the Illinois Prison Known as "Hotel Hell" 2010

A Panopticon is a method of containment and control that requires minimal effort or enforcement.

An Activist Reaction to the Panopticon in Action 2009

Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish is partly about how the Panopticon is a useful metaphor for contemporary systems of social organization--pervasive observation and documentation as a way of keeping society in line.

Week 30: The Panopticon in the Empty Quarter Douglas Wolk 2006

Michel Foucault's Discipline and Punish is partly about how the Panopticon is a useful metaphor for contemporary systems of social organization--pervasive observation and documentation as a way of keeping society in line.

Archive 2006-11-01 Douglas Wolk 2006

He's addressing them in the Panopticon, which is filled with his fellow Timelords.

memoirs on a rainy day 2010

The Utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832) proposed a model prison called the Panopticon ( "all-seeing") [30] which functioned as a round-the-clock surveillance machine.

Disinformation 2010