Only a handful of real panopticon prisons were actually built and virtually none are presently functioning in the ways that ...

Jeremy Bentham was an 18th century English philosopher. His ideas about how we should live our lives was overshadowed by his eccentricity. Before his death in 1832, Bentham left instructions that his ...

The auto-icon of Jeremy Bentham, containing the philosopher’s skeleton in his clothes with a wax head, at University College London (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic unless noted) Henry ...

The nationwide fight against the suddenly ubiquitous Flock camera. The panopticon was, at first, just a thought experiment ...