The Panopticon Writings
A Sociology, Philosophy, School book. Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickness,...
A definitive collection of Bentham’s work on the model prison, key to Foucault’s theory of power.The Panopticon project for a model prison obsessed the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham for almost 20 years. In the end, the project came to nothing; the Panopticon was never built. But it is precisely this that makes the Panopticon project the best exemplification of Bentham's own theory of fictions, according to which non-existent fictitious entities can have all too real effects. There is probably no building that has stirred more philosophical controversy than Bentham's Panopticon. The Panopticon is not merely, as Foucault thought, "a cruel, ingenious cage", in which subjects collaborate in their own subjection, but much more - constructing the...
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In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;in that of poets of amusementin that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition,and too often both priest and lawyer have framed or made in part this instrument. Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings // Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about. Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings // Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickness, was never seen by any man; no; nor can any conception be seriously formed of its existence. Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings //
The central ideas are worth contemplating but reading the whole collection will, for most readers, be a waste of time. In short get a good summary of the work, I found the introduction by Miran Bozovic in the present edition quite comprehensive (although too positively biased toward Bentham, i.e. I suggest a more critical discussion... Shockingly different from what I thought this would be. The first time I heard about the Panopticon, it was portrayed as a glass prison but Benthams letters shows it to be much, much more. A circular building with a god-like inspector placed in the middle, present in the minds, if not in actuality, of every single prisoner incarcerated... Short treatise by the philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham regarding a building designed for the surveillance of it's inhabitants; a sort of 18th Century CCTV. It is written in the form of a series of letters from Russia where Bentham was visiting his brother. Bentham tried for years to get someone to invest in his idea but...
