All was not lost, however. For in 1978 the French philosopher Michel Foucault revived interest in the panopticon idea with the latter’s publication of Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison.

The Panopticon design involved a central watch tower, from which a single prison officer could observe the goings-on in the individual cell blocks that were ranged radially around the tower ...

No Panopticon was ever built, partly because they really did not have the technology to permit seeing without being seen. Since we do now, you can see where this is going.

For Foucault, the panopticon illustrated the functioning of the "disciplinary apparatuses" characteristic of modern societies—a category in which he included not only prisons, ...

Panopticon as a Service (PaaS) Capitalism, we're taught, works by supply and demand duking it out in the market. Where there's demand, eventually there will be a supply.

In an age of overcriminalization and a police state eager to flex its muscles in a show of power, we are all guilty of some transgression or other.

Dear Reader (except the nuts trying to stop the steel), But I really couldn’t make it work, so let’s move on. Evidence is mounting that China is “turning Japanese.” This is shorthand for ...

The airborne panopticon: How plane-mounted cameras watch entire cities Persistent Surveillance Systems can watch 25 sq. miles—for hours.

Austin Lunn’s most recent album as Panopticon, 2023’s The Rime of Memory (Bindrune), is in some ways his most traditional black-metal outing.

George Sikharulidze’s feature debut “Panopticon” is, the director says, a very personal movie. The film, screening as a world premiere in Karlovy Vary Film Festival’s main competition, is ...