Jeremy Bentham
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Jeremy Bentham was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism.
Portrait by Henry William Pickersgill, 1828
Portrait of Bentham by the studio of Thomas Frye, 1760–1762
Bentham's auto-icon in 2003
Bentham's auto-icon in a new display case at University College London's Student Centre in 2020
Panopticon
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The panopticon is a design of institutional building with an inbuilt system of control, originated by the English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century. The concept is to
Jeremy Bentham
…an administration by contract as opposed to trust, where the director would have a pecuniary interest in lowering the average rate of mortality. The Panopticon was intended to be cheaper than the prisons of his time, as it required fewer staff; "Allow me to construct a prison on this model", Bentham requested…
An 1880s architectural drawing by John Frederick Adolphus McNair depicts a proposed prison at Outram, Singapore, that was never built.
Inside one of the buildings of the Presidio Modelo
The disused Presidio Modelo in Cuba is a museum as of 2005.
A plate by Pugin