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Topic: Panopticon


In the News (Thu 12 Nov 09)

  
  Panopticon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Panopticon was intended to be cheaper than that of the prisons of his time, as it required fewer staff; "Allow me to construct a prison on this model," Bentham requested to a Committee for the Reform of Criminal Law, "I will be the gaoler.
The Panopticon is widely but erroneously believed by many people to have influenced the design of Pentonville Prison, Armagh Gaol, Eastern State Penitentiary, and several other Victorian prisons; these, however, were examples of the separate system, which was more about isolation of prisoners from each other than surveillance by their guards.
The Panopticon was likewise later suggested as an "open" hospital architecture: "Hospitals required knowledge of contacts, contagions, proximity and crowding...
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Panopticon   (1070 words)

  
 Stinkweeds Online Music: Your independent source for indie, rare, new, import CDs, LPs and reviews.
The Panopticon is a prison concept conceived by Jeremy Bentham in 1787 with his publication of The Panopticon Letters.
The Panopticon is based on self-control: a cylindrical prison tower with all rooms on the outside wall, backlit from floor to ceiling so the prisoners cannot hide, even in silhouette.
The Panopticon as a metropolitan concept is currently being beta-tested in London and Los Angeles through the use of omnipresent street cameras - this was referenced by Ice Cube a decade ago.
www.stinkweeds.com /review_detail.cfm?rvID=534   (427 words)

  
 Varenne: Modeling interaction through the panopticon
Most summarily, the panopticon is first of all a prison characterized by one form of relationship in which the warden watches the inmate in such a way that the inmate can never be sure that he is actually being watched at any one time.
The panopticon is not simply about watching, it is about documenting aspects of the inmate's "body," thereby transforming him into an "individual." This is what Foucault refers to as "discipline" and characteristic of the modern epoch.
Or rather, depending on the focus, it is the evidence that the cultural model of individualization (the panopticon) is precisely a cultural model, that is one that abstracts interpretatively aspects of the actual or experential.
varenne.tc.columbia.edu /hv/clt/issues/model_structural.html   (1986 words)

  
 The panopticon was first introduced in the Utilitarian philosophy of Jeremy Bentham
The panopticon was first introduced in the Utilitarian philosophy of Jeremy Bentham, as a means by which an institution could be created with the greatest measure of utility, but the least amount of work.
The panopticon design involved a single master/guard/teacher/authority located in a centralized position by which that one person could oversee the whole area, which was sprawled in a circle around the overseer, each individual room, holding one person, unable to see each other or the master.
The panopticon was considered the first step to the development of "self policement." The subject's uncertainty of the master's gaze and the possibility of his policement of their activities, soon begins to manifest in a form of self policement.
www.geocities.com /freeguahan/panopticon   (624 words)

  
 Review : Isis - Panopticon
The term "panopticon" was coined in 1791 by Jeremy Bentham and later conceptually expanded on in 1975 by Michel Foucault.
I suspect the members of Isis spent a considerable amount of time judiciously selecting Panopticon as an appropriate thematic title, which is pertinently associated with the album’s encompassing images of metropolitan landscape taken from celestial heights.
Panopticon is a compelling adventure, textured with brutally crushing guitar riffs, melodically ambient and cerebral arrangements, cavernously resonating bass tones, and explosively heart-pounding percussion.
www1.agouti.com /bands/isis/panopticon/isis.asp   (337 words)

  
 Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish (1975), Panopticism
The Panopticon is a royal menagerie; the animal is replaced by man,, individual distribution by specific grouping and the king by the machinery of a furtive power.
The Panopticon is a privileged place for experiments on men, and for analysing with complete certainty the transformations that may be obtained from them.
The Panopticon, on the other hand, must be understood as a generalizable model of functioning; a way of defining power relations in terms of the everyday life of men.
foucault.info /documents/disciplineAndPunish/foucault.disciplineAndPunish.panOpticism.html   (7435 words)

  
 Lyon: From Big Brother to Electronic Panopticon
The Panopticon was to be a model prison, a new departure, a watershed in the control of deviance and a novel means of social discipline.
Opponents of the 'new surveillance' deplore the fact that it depends upon categories, that no knowledge of the individual is required, that it is increasingly instrumental, that areas of personal life once thought to be inviolably private are invaded, and that it effectively erodes personal and democratic freedoms.
In addition, the Panopticon as a means of exclusion may well be in eclipse, leaving the advanced societies under the superior sway of consumerism, with only a minor role left for the harsher panoptic regimes.
home.fnal.gov /~annis/digirati/otherVoices/Lyon.html   (8648 words)

  
 21C Magazine
The Panopticon is a structure wherein the watched cannot see the watchers, but know they are being watched: At the periphery an annular building, at the center a tower.
The Panopticon, he argued, had seeped into the cracks of modern capitalist society, eventually subverting it, reconstructing it, bending it to its will, until the panoptic paradigm (unverifiable surveillance) was conceptually, if not structurally, everywhere present.
The panopticon must not then be understood as a dream building: it is the diagram of a mechanism of power reduced to its ideal form...
www.21cmagazine.com /issue2/transition.html   (3731 words)

  
 Irregular Times: Forward the Panopticon
The Panopticon is an extreme form, but Bentham and others after his time have seen the creation as a model for future social organization.
Bentham's Panopticon was not only a seminal invention, but also a powerful statement of the idea that the more an individual is observed, the more that control over the individual is taken away from from him- or her-self and concentrated in the hands of the observer.
Before the model of the Panopticon progresses further, while individuals still have some measure of control over their own lives, it is imperative that we recognize the threat and make our private opposition public.
www.irregulartimes.com /panopt.html   (743 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Panopticon: Music: Isis   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Although Panopticon is still rather heavy, Isis have now all but abandoned their Neurosis-style depression-metal sound for a looser, more grandiose feel, and I must say it suits them quite well.
Since Panopticon isn't as heavy overall as its predecessor, it stands to reason that Aaron Turner's vocal intensity would have to be adjusted to match, and he does indeed take it down a notch here.
"Panopticon" has more moments of calm than does "Oceanic," and the vocals lean toward a more growled melody than the angry barks running throughout the latter album, but certainly the barks are still there on the former.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0002Z83KC?v=glance   (3076 words)

  
 Panopticon Reveals Revolutionary New Vision for Business Intelligence
A significant advance in business intelligence software, Panopticon's treemaps are a proven tool for analysts and enable anybody quickly and easily to make sense of large amounts of complex data.
The advanced technology at the core of Panopticon Explorer is already used by Panopticon's clients in the financial sector, including JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup and Reuters.
Panopticon was founded in 1999 and is a part of the Hamsard Group (HMSD).
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/02-27-2006/0004306387&EDATE=   (592 words)

  
 Panopticon Design :: Interactive Design & Code
Panopticon Design has the creativity, technology, and experience necessary to design and deliver the best in full-service graphic design and interactive media.
Panopticon Design offers a wide range of solutions including design and development for business-to-business and business-to-consumer facing websites, CD-ROMs, video, and print media.
Panopticon Design has authored projects for clients such as Ford, Chrysler, Buick and the University of Michigan.
www.panopticondesign.com   (136 words)

  
 The Panopticon Singularity
The 18th century utopian philosopher Jeremy Bentham's panopticon was a prison; a circle of cells with windows facing inwards, towards a tower, wherein jailers could look out and inspect the prisoners at any time, unseen by their subjects.
After a panopticon singularity, it will not only be illegal but impossible.) The development of a panopticon singularity does not preclude the development of a Vingean singularity; indeed, one may potentiate (or suppress) the other.
A second important side-effect of panopticon surveillance is the chilling effect it exerts on otherwise lawful activities.
www.antipope.org /charlie/rant/panopticon-essay.html   (3484 words)

  
 Escaping the Panopticon: Protecting Data Privacy in the Information Age   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
All that is needed, then, is to place a supervisor in a central tower and to confine in each cell a madman, someone sick, someone condemned, a worker, or a schoolboy.
The "Panopticon" is the English jurist and philosopher Jeremy Bentham's model penitentiary, which he described in his 1791 book Panopticon.
The Panopticon functions as a useful regulatory dystopia, a future to be avoided as carefully as Orwell's apocalyptic totalitarian vision in 1984.
gsulaw.gsu.edu /lawand/papers/su98/panopticon   (2168 words)

  
 Isis lets Panopticon terrorize - Music
He did, however, realize the idea of the panopticon, a circular prison in which the overseer can watch all of the inmates without being seen himself.
The newest Isis album, Panopticon, is a conceptually rich, integral album that elucidates a new sense of direction for a band that has always experimented and moved forward.
Panopticon managed to bring new light to a band that was thought to have already achieved their magnum opus.
media.www.ucdadvocate.com /media/storage/paper538/news/2004/11/17/Music/Isis-Lets.Panopticon.Terrorize-808164.shtml?sourcedomain=www.ucdadvocate.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com   (558 words)

  
 Literary Encyclopedia: The Panopticon
The Panopticon was a work in three volumes, the first comprising eight letters written by Bentham whilst in Kirchev, White Russia, commending the idea to a person in power inEngland, and the second and third describing in detail the architectural considerations of the Panopticon and how such institutions should be managed.
The first incarnation of the Panopticon idea was as a scheme to facilitate the supervision of numbers of unskilled Russian workers by a small number of skilled English workers.
Indeed, Bentham’s vision for the Panopticon was as a place for “punishing the incorrigible, guarding the insane, reforming the vicious, confining the suspected, employing the idle, maintaining the helpless, caring the sick, instructing the willing in any branch of industry, or training the rising race in the path of education.” (p.2)
www.litencyc.com /php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=10390   (611 words)

  
 PANOPTICON: Government and Privacy in the New Millenium : SF Indymedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Panopticon: a prison system, whereby the jailer can keep in view all of the inmates, all of the time.
Panopticon: the ambition of many of the present leaders of the United States Government, ostensibly to fight a war against terrorism.
According to Foucault, "Hence the major effect of the Panopticon: to induce in the inmate a state of conscious and permanent visibility that assures the automatic functioning of power." Government control becomes internalized.
sf.indymedia.org /news/2003/01/1558341.php   (1363 words)

  
 Welcome to Panopticons homepage
Panopticons is a unique and ambitious arts and regeneration project at the heart of the East Lancashire Regional Park initiative led by the Lancashire Economic Partnership (LEP).
Funded by the Northwest Regional Development Agency (NWDA) and LEP, its aim is to erect a series of 21st century landmarks, or Panopticons, across East Lancashire by mid 2007, as symbols of the renaissance of the area.
Panopticons and Land are projects of the East Lancashire Environmental Arts Network (ELEAN), which aims to demonstrate the positive role of the arts and cultural activity in the social, economic and physical regeneration of East Lancashire.
www.panopticons.uk.net   (396 words)

  
 Foucault's Panopticon - Coursework.Info
[IMAGE] Jurisprudence " The Panopticon is a priviledged place for experiments on men, and for analysing with complete certainty the transformations that may be obtained by them.
Since the prisoners were constantly subjected to this field of total visibility, they would internalise the prison guard[5].
Panopticon - the Greek neologism signified 'all-seeing place' - was all about vision and transparency operating one-way only: in the service of power.
www.coursework.info /University/Philosophy_and_Theology/Foucaults_Panopticon_L285.html   (279 words)

  
 WorldChanging: Another World Is Here: The Bright Green Panopticon
The "participatory panopticon" is the emerging world of camera and network-enabled devices, allowing us to capture, store and send our passing observations of the world around us.
That the participatory panopticon is a mixed blessing is a given; for every activist surreptitiously documenting polling abuses via cameraphone, there are dozens of sad voyeurs hoping to capture a wardrobe malfunction the same way.
The participatory panopticon may be the unintended baggage of a successful Bright Green future.
www.worldchanging.com /archives/002208.html   (775 words)

  
 Cons in the panopticon
We discuss the panopticon in the context of the globalizing cyber–technology, and argue that piracy is an anti–globalization movement.
A variant of panopticon, proposed by Jeremy Bentham [4], had a single master in the middle, surrounded by a circle of six monitors to keep order, then circular tiers with seats for nine hundred boys [5] (Figure 1).
The panopticon has the power to dominate by monitoring those who are under surveillance, without being observed by those under surveillance.
www.firstmonday.org /issues/issue9_9/rajagopal   (13253 words)

  
 Panopticon – Panopticon Explorer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Panopticon Explorer.NET is an interactive visual data analysis application that can be used with Windows 2000, XP or later.
With Panopticon Explorer.NET, you can explore and visually analyze a wide range of data with simple drag and drop operations.
Panopticon Explorer.NET allows you to freely explore any data in this manner.
www.panopticon.com /explorer   (147 words)

  
 Isis: Panopticon: Pitchfork Record Review   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
These memories are just the tip of the Viking's iceberg; the stuff has leaked into my adulthood, especially via first-generation Norwegian fl metal, Mastodon, High On Fire, the Polish rockers who ran my borrowed van into a Los Angeles parking deck last spring, and-- mightiest of all-- the glorious slow-release sprawl of Isis.
Their album Oceanic was all dark grandeur and waterlogged heaviness, and those qualities define the seven tracks on their follow up Panopticon.
Panopticon shares the crystalline production Matt Bayles (Mastodon, Pearl Jam) leant to Oceanic-- the drums and vocals are submerged, the riffs intricately monolithic-- but unlike on earlier efforts, the spare electronics are more seamlessly woven with the other instruments.
www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/i/isis/panopticon.shtml   (468 words)

  
 Response Source | Press Releases - Panopticon reveals revolutionary new vision for business intelligence
Simple to install, Panopticon Explorer is very easy to use, yet has the ability to produce powerful results.
Panopticon Explorer can be used to look at all kinds of data from sales figures and customer relationship management information to racing car telemetry.”
Panopticon's visualisation technology takes you beyond traditional business intelligence: highly intuitive treemaps visualise trends in business performance and allow you to act before the competition.
www.responsesource.com /releases/rel_display.php?relid=24398&hilite=   (741 words)

  
 VICTORIAN TURKISH BATHS: BENTHAM, Jeremy: Panopticon: model for proposed Turkish bath at Colney Hatch - - -
Jeremy Bentham, who was a friend of the family, also took an interest in the young Urquhart's education and helped start him on his career.
When Urquhart was asked to advise on the construction of a Turkish bath for Colney Hatch he saw that many of the patients would need to be supervised and suggested that the panopticon would allow such supervision without too much intrusion.
In design terms, the Panopticon, with a central supervisory area on several levels, facilitated the continuous supervision of cells lining the inner circumference of the building while employing the minimum number of warders.
www.victorianturkishbath.org /6DIRECTORY/AtoZEstab/Asylums/aapix/Bentham_w.htm   (196 words)

  
 Panopticon – Visual Business Intelligence   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Panopticon is a leading supplier of professional Visual Business Intelligence to the financial services industry as well as other fields of business.
Panopticon, part of the Hamsard Group (HMSD) and the leading supplier of visual business intelligenc...
Including Panopticon’s technology in Reuters’ offering allows Reuters to take the lead in defining how market data will be viewed in the future.
www.panopticon.com   (107 words)

  
 Finextra: Liberty Ermitage licenses Panopticon treemap technology
Panopticon, the supplier of real-time visualisation tools, today announced that Liberty Ermitage, one of Europe's market leaders in the Hedge Fund of Fund and Hedge Fund Seeding arena, chose to use Panopticon's solutions to add value to their investment process.
What made us decide to integrate Panopticon's solution was simply that it allows us to analyse a massive amount of data extremely quickly.
The treemap is based on Panopticon's Enterprise Web Solution and allows Liberty Ermitage to jump to any of the other underlying data sources, including the quantitative and qualitative system.
www.finextra.com /fullpr.asp?id=5776   (490 words)

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