Who designed the 'Panopticon' and described it as 'a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind'?
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Correct answer: B. Jeremy Bentham
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Jeremy Bentham proposed the Panopticon (1787–91), a circular prison where one unseen inspector could watch every inmate, so prisoners would discipline themselves. The quoted phrase is from his preface. Foucault made the Panopticon a metaphor for modern disciplinary society in Discipline and Punish (1975); Alan Sheridan was that book's English translator.
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