Random Thoughts From The Panopticon
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jazzy_daveAnother exuberantly fine sunny day, if a little chilly at first. That is to be expected as we tumble towards October. And whilst it may feel slightly autumnal, we are in a late flowering of warmish weather by the late afternoon and may it continue. I will be heading of to Sevenoaks today as i could not face doing it on the Monday. Once i have fulfilled that mission i will be trekking by bus a journey up to Bromley to complete my last field job of this month. I have already been debriefed and will infiltrate the charity shop sometime this afternoon. They will not know i am coming.
Sorry, that military implantation in my head kinda kicked in or was it the fact that i have been imprinted as the actives in Dollhouse without revealing it. Yes, dear reader, i have completed the first season of Dollhouse. Verdict : creepy, invasive and utterly brilliant, especially if the imprint became viral and the unsuspecting public find themselves , specifially their bodies and identities, taken over by an extremely wealthy plutocracy that want to invade other bodies by extending their own miserable lives (Epitaph One episode).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollhouse_(TV_series)
I knew that Eliza was an incredible actor but here, and as producer, she has excelled herself. I also like the idea of the Panopticon in which the "actives" sleep whilst in a non-engaged situation in which the mind is a tabula rasa before the next imprint. Creepy as hell in fact. A little historical perspective here, as the Panopticon was a type of institutional building designed by the English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the late 18th century.
The concept of the design is to allow all (pan-) inmates of an institution to be observed (-opticon) by a single watchman without the inmates being able to tell whether or not they are being watched. Although it is physically impossible for the single watchman to observe all cells at once, the fact that the inmates cannot know when they are being watched means that all inmates must act as though they are watched at all times, effectively controlling their own behaviour constantly. The name is also a reference to Panoptes from Greek mythology; he was a giant with a hundred eyes and thus was known to be a very effective watchman.
The design consists of a circular structure with an "inspection house" at its centre, from which the manager or staff of the institution are able to watch the inmates, who are stationed around the perimeter. Bentham conceived the basic plan as being equally applicable to hospitals, schools, sanatoriums, daycare, and asylums, but he devoted most of his efforts to developing a design for a Panopticon prison, and it is his prison which is most widely understood by the term.
Bentham himself described the Panopticon as "a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind, in a quantity hitherto without example.
Sorry, that military implantation in my head kinda kicked in or was it the fact that i have been imprinted as the actives in Dollhouse without revealing it. Yes, dear reader, i have completed the first season of Dollhouse. Verdict : creepy, invasive and utterly brilliant, especially if the imprint became viral and the unsuspecting public find themselves , specifially their bodies and identities, taken over by an extremely wealthy plutocracy that want to invade other bodies by extending their own miserable lives (Epitaph One episode).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollhouse_(TV_series)
I knew that Eliza was an incredible actor but here, and as producer, she has excelled herself. I also like the idea of the Panopticon in which the "actives" sleep whilst in a non-engaged situation in which the mind is a tabula rasa before the next imprint. Creepy as hell in fact. A little historical perspective here, as the Panopticon was a type of institutional building designed by the English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the late 18th century.
The concept of the design is to allow all (pan-) inmates of an institution to be observed (-opticon) by a single watchman without the inmates being able to tell whether or not they are being watched. Although it is physically impossible for the single watchman to observe all cells at once, the fact that the inmates cannot know when they are being watched means that all inmates must act as though they are watched at all times, effectively controlling their own behaviour constantly. The name is also a reference to Panoptes from Greek mythology; he was a giant with a hundred eyes and thus was known to be a very effective watchman.
The design consists of a circular structure with an "inspection house" at its centre, from which the manager or staff of the institution are able to watch the inmates, who are stationed around the perimeter. Bentham conceived the basic plan as being equally applicable to hospitals, schools, sanatoriums, daycare, and asylums, but he devoted most of his efforts to developing a design for a Panopticon prison, and it is his prison which is most widely understood by the term.
Bentham himself described the Panopticon as "a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind, in a quantity hitherto without example.
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