I had to look it up; never heard of the word before. I couldn’t find it in Merriam-Webster online but there was this blurb on Google that I believe came from this essay itself: The panoptic mechanism arranges spatial unities that make it possible to see constantly and to recognize immediately… I guess it has to do with surveillance?
The scary panopticon reminds me of jail. Ada county specifically has these huge two way mirrors at the top front and center of the dorms that I guess is the break room for dorm officers. They can see all four tiers (at least in the female dorm) at all times. It’s eerie and perverted somehow. I liked how he compared it to the dungeon. I had forgotten older ways of imprisonment.
Foucalt stated that “in order to make the presence or absence of the inspector unverifiable….” They made the the central tower not visible to the prisoner. This same method is used in Canyon county with the use of 2 way mirrors that look into a central officer’s pod.
It’s crazy that plague regulation is applied to prison systems. They treat the criminal like a deadly disease.
This essay is really hard for me to get through. It’s interesting material for me but it’s so dry and lacks voice completely. It almost read like a manual. Boring. It reminded me of scary big brother and retina scans and such.
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