Thursday, May 29. 2008

Jeremy Bentham, Panopticon

(final edit:Well. It's not Ben, is it? Ha! Put that in your pipe and puff it!)

(Further edit: yeah, so we did already know that. Forgot you guys went after the obit with a magnifying glass, LOL!!! Now its official though!)

Sorry guys, this couldn't wait. 25 minutes in and already going WTF?! (commercial break!)

(EDIT: 10 min. into part 3... maybe its a code name for?... you know....)

Jeremy Bentham (IPA: ['benθəm] or ['bentəm]) (15 February 1748–6 June 1832) was an English jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer. He was a political radical, and a leading theorist in Anglo-American philosophy of law. He is best known for his advocacy of utilitarianism, for the concept of animal rights,[1][2] and his opposition to the idea of natural rights, with his oft-quoted statement that the idea of such rights is "nonsense upon stilts."[3] He also influenced the development of welfarism.[4]

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Among his many proposals for legal and social reform was a design for a prison building he called the Panopticon. Although it was never built, the idea had an important influence upon later generations of thinkers. Twentieth-century French philosopher Michel Foucault argued that the Panopticon was paradigmatic of a whole raft of nineteenth-century 'disciplinary' institutions.

Wikipedia: Jeremy Bentham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Panopticon:

The Panopticon is a type of prison building designed by English philosopher Jeremy Bentham in 1785. The concept of the design is to allow an observer to observe (-opticon) all (pan-) prisoners without the prisoners being able to tell whether they are being watched, thereby conveying what one architect has called the "sentiment of an invisible omniscience."[1]

Bentham himself described the Panopticon as "a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind, in a quantity hitherto without example."[2]

Wikipedia: Panopticon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I'm sure there is a lot more here to digest, but the show will be back on in a minute! Gotta run!






Posted by PlanetLOST in theories at 20:21 | Comment (1)
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#1 jjj on 2008-05-29 22:13 (Reply)
So how the heck did John Locke get in the coffin? He would never leave the island!
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