![]() ![]() ![]() A statement was made by Bentham regarding the 1843 plans, which quoted the structure as a “new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind, in quantity hitherto without example”. Wiley Reveley was the architect who sketched drawings for Bentham and materialized his concept of the Panopticon on paper. When Bentham went to visit his brother, he observed this technique of supervision and applied it to architectural design, specifically for prisons. ![]() ![]() To supervise them efficiently, Samuel devised a method of placing a table and chair in the center, while the factory workers did their job and he kept an eye on all of them simultaneously. While it is widely known that it was Jeremy Bentham’s genius that led to the conceptualization of the Panopticon, very few know that it was originally his brother’s idea that was materialized.īentham’s brother Samuel was employed in Russia at the Krichev estate where the workforce was rather unskilled. The name Panopticon was derived from a famous Greek mythological figure named Argus Panoptes– a mythical all-seeing giant with a hundred eyes. ![]()
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