Backlit lamps extend panoptic visibility into nighttime hours.

Evidence

Small lamps, in the outside of each window of the lodge, backed by a reflector, to throw the light into the corresponding cells, would extend to the night the security of the day. — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 112

Categorization

• XREF: The night-light mirroring day surveillance is echoed in Orwell’s telescreens that remain on in the dark — the gaze that never sleeps. — connects to: Panoptic power rests on central inspection plus unseen watching — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 152

Broader Connections

• Panoptic power rests on central inspection plus unseen watching #expands (0.85) — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 152