Flights

PANOPTICON

The panopticon and the Wunderkammer, as I learned from a museum guide, are a rather venerable duo whose existence precedes that of museums. They exhibited collections of all types of curiosities that their owners had brought back from journeys to places near and far.

Nor should it be forgotten that Bentham chose ‘panopticon’ as the name for his brilliant system of prison surveillance; his goal was to construct a space that would ensure that every prisoner could be ceaselessly seen.