Fleury-Mérogis (1969) reused the 1836 panoptic star-shape plan

Evidence

As evidence of this strength and immobility, let us take a recent fact: the model prison opened at Fleury-Mérogis in 1969 simply took over in its overall plan the panoptic star-shape that made such a stir in 1836 at the Petite-Roquette. It was the same machinery of power that assumed a real body and a symbolic form. — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 418

Categorization

• XREF: Direct material evidence for the reader’s panoptic thesis — the same machinery of power persisting across 130 years.