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Jeremy Bentham’s ‘perfect’ prison | The Panopticon

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A precise digital construction of Jeremy Bentham’s panopticon prison offers a subtle commentary on power and surveillance.
Video by Myles Zhang (www.myleszhang.org)
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The British philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham was, for nearly two decades, consumed by how to construct the ideal building for institutional supervision - and in particular, a better prison. Published in 1791, Bentham’s plans for a ‘panopticon’ building (from the Greek for all-seeing) proposed what he believed to be a cheaper, more efficient and more humane alternative to the prisons of his time. While today the panopticon is more often thought of as a metaphor for power and surveillance than as a flawless prison layout, Bentham believed his proposal was highly practical, applicable ‘without exception, to all establishments whatsoever, in which … a number of persons are meant to be kept under inspection’. This short video from Myles Zhang, a PhD student specialising in US urban history at the University of Michigan, crafts a precise digital construction of a panopticon prison based on Bentham’s plans, with the design’s broader commentaries on punishment, power and surveillance sitting in the subtext. You can read more about Zhang’s project here: www.myleszhang.org/2019/11/11...

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21 мар 2023

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@abrahamgomez653 6 месяцев назад

The Panopticon was the modern architect type of control. The prisoner is inside his cell feels that he his being watched. This is meant for him to control his behavior. The center of the Panopticon is a tower and like a eye it gazes at the all the prisoners correcting there behavior.

@Xander081987 3 месяца назад

Yea. Wait till you realize earth is inside out, and that's where the flat earthers actually went wrong.

@animq4ionboi.153 Год назад

This prison... To hold **ME?**

@jzno 9 месяцев назад

Reality is even worse: No peace, no freedom, no justice, no progress, even under the sky. Walled in…alive.

@spooky_baphomet 23 дня назад

A visitor? Hmmm, indeed, I have slept long enough

@star_duck 13 дней назад

The kingdom of heaven has long since forgotten my name

@AbqDez Год назад

I imagine unless something is done with the sound design - even silence would be deafening. however, if you replaced half the cells on each floor with interspaced community areas, instead of a common room for all prisoners on a pod, you had multiple large community rooms accessed by no more than doz inmates you could provide facilities that might be difficult to maintain for larger groups. also, allowing variation in activities by rotation of prisoners. being able to offer a variation of environment could help prevent institutionalization.

@minecraftgamer-se5vs 5 месяцев назад

It couldn't hold Sisyphus though

@hellsfirealpha 5 месяцев назад

This seems very familiar from a game.

@dominiqueyoung7628 3 месяца назад

Frostpunk

@ShrimpCup 2 месяца назад

Or silent hill 4

@jasminecompany2360 2 месяца назад

Control

@joaoborgesrodriguesalves6554 2 месяца назад

This prison... To hold.... ME?

@shadycat4-se2rt Месяц назад

side order

@owenfowler-rz6ur 5 месяцев назад

lmao its funny to think of how humans started as hunter gathers just trying to eat and sleep and we domino affected in to whatever the fuck this is like how does this happen

@symberlc5532 Месяц назад

Nah for real. This shit looks insane

@CiofaliniUnited-si8qj Год назад

A visitor... Mmmm... Indeed. I have slept long enough. The kingdom of Heaven has long since forgotten my name, and I am EAGER to make them remember. However, the blood of Minos stains your hands, and I must admit, I'm curious about your skills, Weapon. And so, before I tear down the cities, and crush the armies of Heaven... you, shall do as an appetizer. Come forth, child of man, and DIE.

@arian7339 Месяц назад

Very well made video, thank you👍

@user-up5ld4pj7w 19 дней назад

The bars at alcatraz were hollow containing a hardened steel bar that oscillated backwards and forwards. Prisoners at Alcatraz were more concerned with piranha attack than the daily clank of keys in keyholes as the antiquated mechanisms of correction gave way to a walled in euphoria.

@dreamofmaizie 3 месяца назад

I was looking for the vocaloid song ☠️

@FIREINTHEHOLE634 Месяц назад

this prison... to hold... ME?

@kingpietro1279 Год назад

Edouard Ducpétiaux changed this and made the prison in a star

@Faloser Год назад

panopticon

@MetalBansheeX 4 месяца назад

we are grateful for your input

@emdragon6666 4 месяца назад

How did this get hearted

@paulk6119 4 месяца назад

@@emdragon6666 possibly because it's a really good band?

@just-a-fnf-fan 3 месяца назад

This prison…to hold…me?

@Boeing_717. 2 месяца назад

A visitor? Hmm… Indeed,

@cIIII91r_ 2 месяца назад

@@Boeing_717. I have slept long enough. The kingdom of heaven has long since forgotten my name, and I am EAGER to make them remember.

@iloveiceberglettuce 2 месяца назад

But the blood of Minos stains your hands,and i must admit, I'm curious about your skills, weapon @@cIIII91r_

@snarflatful 2 месяца назад

Nice vid, but what's with the bell?

@themetalmario77 2 месяца назад

ferryman (cybergrind ruined)

@K4LxMaddog 2 месяца назад

@@themetalmario77 1000 yard stare

@MrSomethingElse Месяц назад

fantastically informative and stunning visuals and narration. it's a pity it's so horrifying, is it true they actually built some of these?

@arandompersonontheinternet9939 3 месяца назад

Ah yes, the perfect prison, safe and secure, a place that you can't escape. I'm pretty sure whoever gets put here will regret every second of their life.

@Cropplot 2 месяца назад

Your existence must be doomed from the very start to not regret a second of it.

@reeky_one 25 дней назад

@@CropplotStill, You can't escape

@DonInsanityMaster 4 месяца назад

It’s crazy, think this one is very familiar to me. Think a robot would fit inside here.

@noah-ds 2 месяца назад

I don't think this would make me want to be a better person when my sentence is done.

@hecofemonetization6270 Месяц назад

the panopticon mean the eye that see everything

@V2_gamingorsmth Месяц назад

This very same prison wouldn't be able to keep down Minos's and Sisyphus's willpower though.

@reeky_one 25 дней назад

Yeah but you can't escape This one

@notbreadcrumbs 4 месяца назад

p-2 rtx on

@alakhdar100 3 месяца назад

The perfect prison with one loop hole, if all the prisoners at the same time assumed there is no guards to watch and moved in an organised manner, they'll escap so easly no matter the guards exist or not.

@reeky_one 25 дней назад

You can't escape

@takeshisnowfox9383 4 дня назад

BE GONE!

@borab996 9 месяцев назад

its an evil thought

@cherryscarlett Год назад

_Bri₺ish Perfek₺ Prison: .._

@kaikito7662 Год назад

Or.....Skyscaper buildings. Single, sound-proofed cells. A concrete slab to be utilised as a bed/ chair/ table. NO PERSONAL ITEMS ALOWED. A bucket for a toilet. And frosted tiles as windows. They would live in a state of lockdown 23/7. For an hour every day the prisoner ( who at NO TIME has any physical , let alone visual , contact with other prisoners) has an hour out of their cell. The hour is cut into two halves: 30 minutes for emptying and cleaning the bucket as well as collecting food and drink for the next 24 hours. The remaining 30 minutes is for a choice of either physical activity or a shower. No visits during the whole of their sentence - cutting-out a lot of problems. No work. No laundry- prison uniforms are the paper ones used by the building industry. No phone calls whatsoever. No mail, either. See , I learnt that the average prisoner hates isolation; hates their own company. So there is the real-and-just punishment: isolation. Making them know how it would actually feel if the proverbial ' key ' had been thrown away .

@john92415 Год назад

You forget these people will be your neighbors again one day. Making them worse will have a negetive effect on society.

@kaikito7662 Год назад

@@john92415 With the threat of serving a further fifteen years for even the slightest of misdemeanours hanging over their head ...no. They will be well-behaved scum. This time society gets the upper-hand.

@AbqDez Год назад

of course understanding that at the time of J Bentham, most prisons were more like zoos, with a cage, buckets of slop, a trough of water, and a hole for refuse (maybe) the great complaint was the lack of privacy and no chance for self-improvement. so his suggestion would be better than what was available (ie many did not survive prison at all, usually the nonviolent offenders had the worst of it.

@thevisi0naryy 9 месяцев назад

Yeah you would be the dude who took the Stanford experiment too seriously

@emigrant1510 8 месяцев назад

You do understand that the Panopticon, as envisioned by Jeremy Bentham, was meant to be a mean to offer *rehabilitation* ? Prisons as mindless punishment are precisely the problem, you absolute imbecile...