The Panopticon Writings - Grand Format

"Morals reformed, health preserved, industry invigorated, instruction diffused, public burdens lightened, economy seated, as it were, upon a rock ... all by a simple idea of Architecture ! " English philosopher Jeremy Bentham's ingenious plan for the Panopticon, a prison institution administered by invisible overseers, while never built, resonates across all areas of modern society. Frequently cited but seldom read, the complete Panopticon Letters are presented here with selections from Postscript I and Bentham's fascinating account of fiction, Fragment on Ontology.
Together with an introduction by Miran Bozov is that reaches beyond Foucault's famous account, these texts convey the controversial brilliance behind the Panopticon and its vexed utopia of order.