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  • FWIW the Panopticon has been used metaphorically before.

    From Wikipedia (I’d recommend reading the whole Criticisms and use as Metaphor section):

    In the mid-1970s, the panopticon was brought to the wider attention by the French psychoanalyst Jacques-Alain Miller and the French philosopher Michel Foucault.[30] In 1975, Foucault used the panopticon as metaphor for the modern disciplinary society in Discipline and Punish. He argued that the disciplinary society had emerged in the 18th century and that discipline are techniques for assuring the ordering of human complexities, with the ultimate aim of docility and utility in the system.[31] Foucault first came across the panopticon architecture when he studied the origins of clinical medicine and hospital architecture in the second half of the 18th century. He argued that discipline had replaced the pre-modern society of kings, and that the panopticon should not be understood as a building, but as a mechanism of power and a diagram of political technology







  • It’s alright, I was never a real librarian (that’s a title that’s deceptively hard to earn btw) but was a interned worker for one during much of undergrad. I definitely felt cool wearing a cardigan and stocking a huge cart of books but also had to tell people they can’t watch porn on the computers about three times a week, so…