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Old 05-17-2007, 04:13 PM   #42
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What is a panopticon? Is it an autobot or a a decepticon?
Foucault borrows the concept from Jeremy Bentham and then elaborates on it:

http://foucault.info/documents/disci...nOpticism.html
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