Building the panopticon produces God as an emergent architectural byproduct

Evidence

We would be no less surprised if we were to follow the construction of Bentham’s panopticon as it were assembled piece by piece before our very eyes: although we would be watching the assembly of the panopticon, not only would a building be produced, but also God within it. The panopticon is perhaps really nothing more than ‘a simple idea in architecture’, as Bentham says, but if we were to realize this idea by faithfully following Bentham’s plan, we would produce, so to speak, at the same time as the building itself – which we have built out of bricks, iron, glass, etc. – God as well. — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 65

Categorization

• XREF: Connects directly to 1984: the architecture of telescreens and Two Minutes Hate produces Big Brother as an emergent deity out of brick and concrete. — connects to: The panopticon’s power rests on a fiction at its core — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 31; A fabricated fiction of God sustains panoptic deterrence — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 41; The panopticon’s gaze functions as God independent of the human inspector — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 59 (+6 more)
• DEEPTHINKING: The idea that surveillance architecture generates a theological entity from purely material parts is a genuinely paradigm-shifting image of how power and belief interlock.

Related

• The panopticon produces God the way an assembly line produces a body (similarity 0.88)
• The panopticon’s power rests on a fiction at its core (similarity 0.85)
• The panopticon’s gaze functions as God independent of the human inspector (similarity 0.84)
• A fabricated fiction of God sustains panoptic deterrence (similarity 0.83)
• The panopticon could experimentally prove universal educability (similarity 0.81)
• The Panopticon is an abstract diagram of power, not a literal building (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The panopticon produces God the way an assembly line produces a body #expands (0.95) — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 63