The Digitalisation of Bentham's Panopticon
P.T. Maurer (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
B. Hausleitner – Mentor (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
G. Bracken – Mentor (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
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Abstract
Has the pandemic transformed our working environment into a digital panopticon, and how close is this idea to the one of Bentham's panopticon described in Foucault's book "Discipline and Punish, the birth of the prison"?
This research paper compares the modern smart-working environment and the digitalization of our social interaction with the prison designed by Bentham. Even if most of the similarities can be found on the conceptual level, analyzing and reflecting on analogies in the spatial correspondences became increasingly relevant.