Panoptic architecture obviates the need for a large supervisory staff

Evidence

Officers and governors, eo nomine, my contractor would have none: and any superfluous clerk or over-looker, who might be found lurking in his establishment, he would have much less tenderness for, than your gardener has for the sow-thistles in your garden. The greatest part of his science comes to him in maxims from his grand-mother; and amongst the foremost of those maxims is that which stigmatizes as an unfrugal practice, the keeping of more cats than will catch mice. — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 224

Categorization

• XREF: This is the concrete economic claim behind Foucault’s point that the panopticon reduces the number of those who exercise power. — connects to: Internalized discipline makes the human inspector functionally superfluous — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 59; Panoptic control operates through gaze and voice detached from any bearer — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 42

Broader Connections

• Internalized discipline makes the human inspector functionally superfluous #corroborates (0.85) — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 59
• Panoptic control operates through gaze and voice detached from any bearer #expands (0.82) — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 42