Digital surveillance outdoes the panopticon by being aperspectival and blindsight-free.

Evidence

Digital surveillance proves so efficient because it is aperspectival. It does not suffer from the perspectival limitations characterizing analogue optical systems. Digital optics enables surveillance from any and every angle. It eliminates all blind spots. In contrast to analogue and perspectival optics, it can peer into the human soul itself. — Byung-Chul Han, Psychopolitics, 126

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the panopticon literature from Discipline and Punish and Han’s broader critique of surveillance; also relevant to the sensor network and 2001: surveillance themes.

Related

• The digital panopticon fails to register as surveillance because its subjects feel free (similarity 0.80)
• Surveillance-based power operates by optics rather than force (similarity 0.79)