Panopticon intake was staged as an initiation ritual

Evidence

Those who will later take an active part in the spectacle must first themselves be subjected to the spectacle; consequently, reception of prisoners into the panopticon prison resembles, as Janet Semple has remarked, ‘an initiation ceremony rather than a bath’: — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 18

Categorization

• XREF: The spectacle-subject dynamic anticipates how subjects are inducted into surveillance regimes — relevant to Winston’s transformation arc in Nineteen Eighty-Four. — connects to: Veiling and ritual bodily acts train the self into piety; Witnessing an intense ritual boosts prosociality as much as participating in it; The whipping ritual originated as an ordeal-of-passage tied to fertility rites — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 302

Broader Connections

• Veiling and ritual bodily acts train the self into piety #corroborates (0.75)
• The whipping ritual originated as an ordeal-of-passage tied to fertility rites #exemplifies (0.75) — , The Rod and the Child, 302
• Witnessing an intense ritual boosts prosociality as much as participating in it #corroborates (0.72)