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
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
We (novel)
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We is a dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin that was written in 1920–1921. It was first published as an English translation by Gregory Zilboorg in 1924 by E. P. Dutton in New York. The
Panopticon
…widespread use of the panopticon in literature, comic books, computer games, and TV series. The panopticon's principles is the central idea in the plot of We (Russian: Мы, romanized: My), a dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin, written 1920–1921. Zamyatin applies the panopticon's principles to…
The 1924 Zilboorg translation (from a 1959 republication)