Panopticism creates a feeling of constant visibility from "summary" of Discipline and Punish by Michel Foucault
The Panopticon is a machine for dissociating the see/being seen dyad: in the peripheric ring, one is totally seen, without ever seeing; in the central tower, one sees everything without ever being seen. It is an ingenious mechanism for creating a consciousness of permanent visibility. The Panopticon is a type of location, a place of total visibility, a site where the exer-cise of power may be perpetually and completely assured. The Panopticon is polyvalent in its applications; it serves to reform prisoners, but also to treat patients, to instruct schoolchildren, to confine the insane, to supervise workers, to put beggars and idlers to work. The Panopticon is a privileged place for experiments on men, and for analyzing with complete certainty the transformations that may be obtained from them. The Panopticon, on the other hand, must be understood as a...
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