0 a prison with cells (= rooms) arranged in a circle, so that the people in them can be seen at all times from the centre
As a result, they, like the "subjects" of the panopticon, assumed responsibility for self-discipline due to the highly visible, although very often unverifiable, political monitoring.
The prisoner inside the panopticon is free in just this way, able to choose between becoming a responsible worker and citizen or not.
But, though he's sitting in the panopticon, what he is talking about has little to do with financial control or cutting costs.
A pathological public sphere (a control society structured like a panopticon) generates an equally pathological private sphere.
The systems of connection described in this essay are quite different in quality from a panopticon.
Panopticon is an architectural design of a prison in which a tower is positioned in its center and an annular building at the periphery.
Obviously, this "monitoring gaze" was in some sense parallel but not as powerful as the panopticon, under which the prisoner had no escape from the gaze of the tower guards.
Is the metaphor of a panopticon appropriate for voluntary surrender of privacy?
