You might assume that the 40 metre-high dome in the Dutch city of Haarlem is a religious building, said The Guardian – "until you notice the bars covering its 230 windows". The Haarlem ...

Originally, though, the panopticon was what the British political philosopher Jeremy Bentham proposed as a new model of prison architecture at the end of the 18th century. The design was ingenious. It ...

An expression of power and a symbol of surveillance, the panopticon is a notorious architectural concept intended as a disciplinary mechanism. Photographer Romain Veillon shares his images of the ...

Bentham’s Panopticon is an annular prison that places each prisoner ... study in the library — some of which eerily emulate panoptic architecture, such as Sanborn and the East Reading Room — and sleep ...

47 and @cwarzel.92. If you were tasked with building a panopticon, your design might look a lot like the information stores of the U.S. federal government—a collection of large, complex agencies ...

"Trump’s push to 'eliminate silos' is being sold as a modernization drive against fraud and waste, but it is building the architecture of a digital dictatorship." Cyberlaw Clinic Instructor Alejandra ...

“Tolkien’s Panopticon and Foucault’s Towers: A Study on the Architecture of Power,” with Joanna Boyd-Wilhite. Towers and Strongholds in Middle-earth, ed. Cami Agan. Mythopoeic Press. (in press, ...

“Panopticon” may not have quite the all-seeing eye its title implies, but its gaze is piercing and sharp and strange. When he finds a USB stick that one of his teammates, Lasha (Vakho ...

Bentham himself saw the panopticon as "a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind", and believed this "simple idea in architecture" could reform morals and improve health. He thought the ...