Philosophy and the City

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  1. Theory of Surveillance, the panopticon (with images)
  2. Jeremy Bentham, Panopticon Writings Ed. Miran Bozovic (London: Verso, 1995). p. 29-95
  3. A summary of Foucault's analysis of the prison in Discipline and Punish (from which excerpt was taken)http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/foucault/#3.3
  4. UCLA Bentham Project
  5. Foucault, panopticism, and surveillance in the city

Michel Foucault

Images of Panopticons,
including models of Bentham's vision
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Course Materials: Foucault