Even unpaid family members become unwitting inspectors in the panopticon

Evidence

A very material point is, that room be allotted to the lodge, sufficient to adapt it to the purpose of a complete and constant habitation for the principal inspector or head-keeper, and his family. The more numerous also the family, the better; since, by this means, there will in fact be as many inspectors, as the family consists of persons, though only one be paid for it. Neither the orders of the inspector himself, nor any interest which they may feel, or not feel, in the regular performance of his duty, would be requisite to find them motives adequate to the purpose. Secluded oftentimes, by their situation, from every other object, they will naturally, and in a manner unavoidably, give their eyes a direction conformable to that purpose, in every momentary interval of their ordinary occupations. — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 156

Categorization

• XREF: Surveillance without any motive or instruction — the family watches simply because they have nothing else to look at — prefigures the ambient, motivation-free watching in Oceania. — connects to: Internalized discipline makes the human inspector functionally superfluous — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 59; Military family members on bases fall under the military’s total institution power; Class norms can render poverty invisible by forbidding both asking and offering help — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 444 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Internalized discipline makes the human inspector functionally superfluous #expands (0.85) — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 59
• Military family members on bases fall under the military’s total institution power #exemplifies (0.80)
• Each inspector is himself under inspection, losing his omnipresence at moments of visible action #complicates (0.80) — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 316
• Class norms can render poverty invisible by forbidding both asking and offering help #exemplifies (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 444