The Panopticon consolidates work, prayer, and punishment into a single space

Evidence

When the ground thus dearly wrung from the grasp of luxury came to be covered, think what another source of expense was to be opened, when, over and above nine hundred roomy chambers for so many persons to lie in, three other different classes of apartments were to be provided, to I know not what number nor extent, for them to work in, to pray in, and to suffer in! – four operations, the scenes of which are, upon our plan, consolidated into one. — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 220

Categorization

• XREF: Consolidation of functions under one roof maps directly onto Foucault’s analysis of the panopticon as a machine that integrates discipline. — connects to: The panopticon produces God the way an assembly line produces a body — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 63; The panopticon amplifies whatever institution it is applied to — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 274; The Panopticon’s central vantage mirrors the panorama’s sovereign gaze — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 527

Related

• The panopticon amplifies whatever institution it is applied to (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• The Panopticon’s central vantage mirrors the panorama’s sovereign gaze #expands (0.75) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 527