Foucault took the panopticon as emblematic of the ways that surveillance becomes an exercise of power, even going so far as to constitute the people being observed. When you don’t know when you’re ...

Broached as early as 1791, the Panopticon theory holds that people can be controlled when they believe themselves to be under constant surveillance even if no one is watching.

All was not lost, however. For in 1978 the French philosopher Michel Foucault revived interest in the panopticon idea with the latter’s publication of Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison.

In the panopticon, each prisoner is simultaneously a victim and enforcer of their own subjugation. While Dartmouth’s campus hardly functions as a prison, it induces a state of constant visibility ...

In 1958, the 32-year-old philosopher Michel Foucault arrived in Poland to assume the directorship of the Centre Français in Warsaw. Less than a year later, he abruptly left the country. According ...

A "panopticon" is an alternative to the traditional prison dreamed up by Jeremy Bentham in the late 18th century. ... (and Bentham actually applied the theory to schools and other environments.) ...

Early on, the NSA needed a quick fix. It got that by buying largely off-the-shelf systems for network monitoring, as evidenced by the installation of hardware from Boeing subsidiary Narus at ...

I haven't always been that kind to Justice Scalia (or to Justice Scalia's hats), but I do think he's a very good writer, and so I'm glad to be able to quote him saying something I agree with. If ...