Unlocatable individual addressing makes all prisoners assume they are watched

Evidence

In this way, the inspector is able to issue commands, instructions, warnings, etc., to the prisoners, without having to leave his post. He is able to speak to them without having to expose himself to the eyes of the prisoners; the prisoners can hear him, but they cannot see him. He is able to communicate with each of the prisoners individually without the others knowing. Since no one, except for the prisoner being addressed, can know whom the inspector is addressing at any given moment, it is obvious that no one can know for sure that he himself is not at that time under surveillance. — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 46

Categorization

• XREF: The exact causal mechanism the reader’s thesis claims 1984 dramatizes: because no one knows who is being watched, everyone must behave as if watched — the internalized panopticon. — connects to: Invisible inspection can awe prisoners to silence without any physical restraint — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 288; One observation action suffices to make prisoners police their own behavior permanently — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 59; Unseen visitors leave prisoners without fear of exposure — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 682 (+3 more)

Related

• One observation action suffices to make prisoners police their own behavior permanently (similarity 0.90)
• Invisible inspection can awe prisoners to silence without any physical restraint (similarity 0.89)
• Unseen visitors leave prisoners without fear of exposure (similarity 0.87)
• The inspector’s hiddenness is engineered so prisoners never know if they are watched. (similarity 0.87)
• Centralized visibility defeats prisoners’ ability to prepare staged appearances (similarity 0.85)
• Visible surveillance makes subjects police themselves without any force (similarity 0.84)
• Panoptic power derives from invisible omnipresence rather than real presence (similarity 0.84)
• An opaque dummy object substitutes for the inspector in the lantern undetected (similarity 0.83)
• The pierced-blind design lets the inspector see all inmates without any inmate seeing him (similarity 0.83)
• Even imperfect invisibility can sustain the illusion of constant surveillance (similarity 0.83)
• Uncertainty about being watched suffices to make surveillance effective (similarity 0.83)
• Apparent omnipresence of the inspector sustains discipline (similarity 0.82)
• Visible visitors in the central tower create avenues for conspiratorial signaling (similarity 0.81)
• Visibility and invisibility must be balanced for surveillance to function (similarity 0.81)
• Effective surveillance is visible yet permanently unverifiable (similarity 0.80)

Broader Connections

• Invisible inspection can awe prisoners to silence without any physical restraint #corroborates (0.90) — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 288
• The inspector’s hiddenness is engineered so prisoners never know if they are watched. #expands (0.90) — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 110
• Unseen visitors leave prisoners without fear of exposure #contradicts (0.85) — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 682
• Visible surveillance makes subjects police themselves without any force #corroborates (0.85) — Michel Foucault, Discipline & Punish- The Birth of the…, 315
• One observation action suffices to make prisoners police their own behavior permanently #expands (0.80) — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 59
• A centered watcher who sees all cells is inevitably visible from all cells #complicates (0.80) — Jeremy Bentham, The Panopticon Writings, 295