Tuesday, September 4, 2012

Panopticon

The Panopticon is a machine for dissociating the see/being seen dyad: in the peripheric ring, one is totally seen, without ever seeing; in the central tower, one sees everything without ever being seen.
(Michel Foucault, 1975, Discipline and punish / Tarkkailla ja rangaista)


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