panopticon

• “Participation in most parts of the panopticon is by choice; sometimes these choices are inconvenient, but they are different paths just the same.”

  MIND MELD: Are We Headed For a Technological Panopticon?

• “A panopticon is a prison where everyone can see you; in the case of privacy it's a voluntary prison, one of choice.”

  MIND MELD: Are We Headed For a Technological Panopticon?

• “But if we accept the notion that the participatory panopticon is a likely consequence of otherwise desirable improvements to communication and information technologies, it becomes incumbent upon us to think of ways to use it as a tool for good.”

  Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Emerging participatory panopticon

• “A panopticon is a prison where everyone can see you; in the case of privacy it’s a voluntary prison, one of choice.”

  Dusk Before the Dawn » 2008 » January

• “The panopticon is a worthy point of discussion as it does stretch into all parts of our life”

  The Guardian World News

• “Italians are fighting back against the surveillance society with a grass roots project designed to publicise the location of CCTV cameras - and to "out" those that have been set up contrary to Italian Law., which was launched earlier this year, is a deliberate parody of the "panopticon" - an ideal prison first put forward by Jeremy Bentham in 1791.”

  Signs of the Times

• “In all these ways an afternoon party such as this was something much more valuable than a vision of the past for it offered me something better than the successive pictures I had missed of the past separating itself from the present, namely, the relationship between the present and the past; it was like what used to be called a panopticon but a panopticon of years, a view not of a monument but of a person situated in the modifying perspective of”

  Time Regained

• “Both groups are encouraging voters to use Twitter as a kind of panopticon of the polling process.”

  Tweet the Vote! - Swampland - TIME.com

• “Here the executive mansion becomes a kind of panopticon, with each wing facing outward through a massive screen, like a TV set with just one channel.”

  Wired: Extreme Makeover: White House Edition

• “Did he realize, when he marveled at this system, in which, as he wrote, they "translated the intelligence of discipline into stone," that he was in the first detention center in the world that applied the famous "panopticon" schema that the nineteenth century would use not just for prisons, but as the principle of organization for its schools, hospitals, barracks, and factories?”

  In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part V)

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