...industry invigorated — instruction diffused — public burthens lightened — Economy seated, as it were, upon a rock — the gordian knot of the PoorLaws...whoever chooses to have it so, against abuse. — Such i- the engine : such the work that may be done with it. How far the expectations thus held oat have...

...untied—all by a simple idea in Architecture I Thus much I ventured to say on laying do wn the pen—and thus much I should perhaps have said on taking it...compose the body of £)this tract were written at Crecheif in Russia, and from thence sent to England in the year 1787, much about the same time with...

...and comprehending, the whole human race, in all places ... at all future time.' The panopticon was: 'A new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind, in a quantity hitherto without example.'48 It would be easy to interpret these words as symptoms of an incipient paranoia and to depict...

...de-konstruktivistischen Programme, gehören zum kontingenztheoretischen Gegendiskurs, der seit den l970/80ern Such is the engine: such the work that may be done with it." (Bentham l79l/l995, S. 3l). 2 l Siehe dazu Crowther l 996. 22 Eine sinnige Koinzidenz: Für Moses blieb...

...heavily on architectural design to maximize surveillance. In Bentham's own words, the effect would be "a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind, in a quantity hitherto without example." Bentham's reformatory building aimed to achieve perpetual surveillance over the inmates: "[I]deal perfection...

...shared many, but not all, such views, setting out his own via the architectural jewel of the Panopticon, 'a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind, in a quantity hitherto without example'. The basic structure of this building was to be circular or polygonal, with cells around the circumference....

...bookshopsi. The panopticon is nothing more than "a simple idea in architecture." never realized. describing "a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind. in a quantity hitherto without example"- the possessor of this power is "the inspector" with his imisible omnipresence. "an utterly dark spot"...

...superintend those to whom it delegates panoptical power: for Bentham recognized in his invention not only "a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind, in a quantity hitherto without example," but also one that must be "equally . . . secured . . . against abuse" (Works 40; emph. added; cf. Blake...

...of cells. This isolation broke the recalcitrant, the irresponsible, and the criminal; it constituted "a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind, in a quantity hitherto without example." Bentham's utopian scheme "worked" only because of the physical structure in which the inmates were...

...all have 'the impression of an invisible omnipresence' (B xi 96). The device, in Bentham's words, was 'a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind, in a quantity hitherto without example' (B iv 39); it would also, of course, promote economy in that fewer staff would be required than in...