(ex)Hume

Visibility is a trap.

~ by Jeremy Bentham on June 29, 2008.

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10 Responses to “(ex)Hume”

  1. Mr. Bentham, you need to trust someone, choose and empty your guilt.

    XMOZZAZX said this on June 29, 2008 at 6:43 am | Reply

  2. You can always keep it quiet, without being quiet at all.

    XMOZZAZX said this on June 29, 2008 at 6:44 am | Reply

  3. Silence is revealing.

    XMOZZAZX said this on June 29, 2008 at 6:45 am | Reply

  4. Only for a fraud. Put up or shut up, Bentham.

    vexingmodstwo said this on June 29, 2008 at 7:30 am | Reply

  5. ‘Discipline and Punishment : The Birth of the Prison’ by Michel Foucault

    Apopheniac said this on June 29, 2008 at 8:08 am | Reply

  6. What is invisibility? Freedom?

    jacob said this on June 29, 2008 at 9:09 am | Reply

  7. “Shadows Are Security”

    technoprep said this on June 29, 2008 at 8:29 pm | Reply

  8. Hum…Hume? As in David Hume?

    technoprep said this on June 29, 2008 at 8:56 pm | Reply

  9. The Panopticon is not a dream building, but a diagram of power reduced to its ideal form.

    Anne said this on July 17, 2008 at 3:21 pm | Reply

  10. From SparkNotes

    Foucault then discusses Jeremy Bentham’s Panopticon, a building with a tower at the center from which it is possible to see each cell in which a prisoner or schoolboy is incarcerated. Visibility is a trap. Each individual is seen but cannot communicate with the warders or other prisoners. The crowd is abolished. The panopticon induces a sense of permanent visibility that ensures the functioning of power. Bentham decreed that power should be visible yet unverifiable. The prisoner can always see the tower but never knows from where he is being observed.

    Lurker said this on July 17, 2008 at 5:13 pm | Reply

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