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Reading 20
__Bentham's Panopticon__ //*Only uses the first one //
 * An architectural building
 * In the center a tower, in the periphery an annular (shaped like a ring) building
 * The periphery building is divided into cells
 * Each cell extends the full width of the building
 * There is a window on each side (inside and outside)
 * This structure allows for a guard in the tower to view the inmates (who are backlit from the sun
 * The panoptic mechanism arranges the spatial utilities that make it possible to see constantly and recognize immediately
 * Reverses the three functions of a dungeon
 * To enclose
 * To deprive
 * To hide

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 * Inmates are always the object of information, never the subject in communication
 * Was designed so that the inmates NEVER knew if they were being watched, but knew that they COULD be being watched
 * Didn’t need to have locks, just economic geometry of a “house of certainty”
 * The prison transformed the punitive procedure into a penitentiary technique with several results:
 * Established a slow, continuous, imperceptible gradation that made it possible to pass naturally from disorder to offense and back from a transgression of the law to a slight departure from a rule, an average, a demand, a norm
 * Allows the recruitment of major delinquents
 * Succeeds in making the power to punish natural and legitimate, in lowering at least the threshold of tolerance to penality
 * Permitted the emergence of a new form of law: a mixture of legality and nature, prescription and constitution, the norm
 * Assures both the real capture of the body and its perpetual observation
 * Extreme Solidity

Panopticon Panopticism Michel Foucault Surveillance

__References__
Castells, Manuel. "An Introduction to the Information Age." The Information Society Reader. Ed. Frank Webster, Raimo Blom, Erkki Karvonen, Harri Melin, Kaarle Nordenstreng, and Ensio Puoskari. London and New York: Routledge Image courtesy of: Google Images.//The Penitentiary Panopticon//. Online at:<[|http://www.unc.edu/courses/2002ss1/anth/023/001/panopticon/Vista%20Parcial%20del%20Reclusorio,%20National%20Penitentiary%20of%20Cuba-%20interior.jpg]>