Originally, though, the panopticon was what the British political philosopher Jeremy Bentham proposed as a new model of ...

Discover the chilling history of the panopticon prison, imagined by Jeremy Bentham as a means to optimize organization and ...

In this episode of Crash Course Political Theory ... And so, Bentham thought, they would be deterred from stepping out of line. He called his creation the “panopticon.” ...

The panopticon, first envisioned by British philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham in the 1700s, is a circular structure with a domed roof and cells arranged in tiers on the circumference.