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Panopticon [fragments]

by Jeremy Bentham

Bentham’s Panopticon in fragments

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Bentham’s Panopticon in fragments

This volume gathers fragments of Jeremy Bentham’s prison proposal alongside correspondence from his long campaign to secure support for its construction. The material presents the Panopticon as both a proposed institution organized around visibility and concealment and an idea later taken up as a metaphor in Michel Foucault’s writing on society and control. Its fragmentary documents offer a historical route into questions of surveillance, institutional power, and the design of observation.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in the history of political thought and prison design.
  • Those exploring surveillance, privacy, and theories of social control.
  • Readers seeking primary-source fragments and correspondence connected to Bentham’s Panopticon proposal.

Themes

Surveillance and visibilityPrison designPolitical thoughtSocial control

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Book overview

For almost a quarter of a century, utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham attempted to acquire funding and goverment assistance in building an unorthodox prison of ambiguous surveillance and guard. This new text captures fragments of his original proposal and the various correspondence he wrote throughout the years he spent campaigning for the prison's construction.

 

Bentham's Panopticon is a compelling example of pre-modern thought around visibility and concealment, eventually acting as a central metaphor within Foucault's writings on society and control. Here, re-examined through the virulent design of the multidisciplinary publishing project, CLOAK.

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