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  • It's been a terrible week for Westminster's brand of compassionate panopticism.

    London Riots: 'The Police Did Nothing' Anne Jolis 2011

  • It's been a terrible week for Westminster's brand of compassionate panopticism.

    'The Police Did Nothing' Anne Jolis 2011

  • I like when he writes impassioned defenses of panopticism.

    Matthew Yglesias » Hugo Chavez, Inflation Hawk 2010

  • This semester saw students who wrote on everything from how we speak about feces, to "villainous" pirates, to folklore heroes and nationalism, to language and communication, to Santa Claus and panopticism, to how mimetics influences stable or instable cultural forms, to the psychology of nationhood, to Jurassic park, to linguistic identity, to Mexican revolutionary imagery.

    Archive 2008-05-01 Mary Kate Hurley 2008

  • This semester saw students who wrote on everything from how we speak about feces, to "villainous" pirates, to folklore heroes and nationalism, to language and communication, to Santa Claus and panopticism, to how mimetics influences stable or instable cultural forms, to the psychology of nationhood, to Jurassic park, to linguistic identity, to Mexican revolutionary imagery.

    Teaching Writing: Reflections, and Thanks, Year Two Mary Kate Hurley 2008

  • The shift of focus away from the outward vision of Buckminster Fuller 's “Spaceship Earth” to the inwardly looking complicit panopticism of McLuhan's “Global Village” seems to be the object of the swing.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Bettina Tizzy 2009

  • This turns upon panopticism "" that there is a constant possibility of being watched and judged.

    Recommendations for Prison Reform 2009

  • The shift of focus away from the outward vision of Buckminster Fuller 's “Spaceship Earth” to the inwardly looking complicit panopticism of McLuhan's “Global Village” seems to be the object of the swing.

    She[s] got a hammer: Hammering the Void Bettina Tizzy 2009

  • As the title suggest, there's plenty of information about the history of the phenomenon of panopticism and its representation in art.

    Boing Boing: August 6, 2006 - August 12, 2006 Archives 2006

  • At the other extreme, with panopticism, is the discipline-mechanism: a functional mechanism that must improve the exercise of power by making it lighter, more rapid, more effective, a design of subtle coercion for a society to come.

    Gerry Canavan 2007

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