The panopticon produces God the way an assembly line produces a body

Evidence

God is thus produced, with all of his attributes, in a way similar to the famous scene described by Hitchcock, in which a corpse is ‘produced’ through assembling an automobile: — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 63

Categorization

• XREF: The Hitchcock-assembly-line analogy is a striking metaphor for emergent properties — a structure generating something none of its parts contain. — connects to: A fabricated fiction of God sustains panoptic deterrence — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 41; The panopticon’s gaze functions as God independent of the human inspector — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 59; Building the panopticon produces God as an emergent architectural byproduct — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 65 (+6 more)

Related

• Building the panopticon produces God as an emergent architectural byproduct (similarity 0.88)
• The panopticon’s gaze functions as God independent of the human inspector (similarity 0.82)
• The panopticon could experimentally prove universal educability (similarity 0.79)

Broader Connections

• The panopticon amplifies whatever institution it is applied to #expands (0.85) — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 274
• The Panopticon consolidates work, prayer, and punishment into a single space #expands (0.82) — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 220
• Abrahamic scripture centers devotion on a God who sees everything always #corroborates (0.82)
• Bentham designed the panopticon to internalize productive labor habits #expands (0.78)