The Panopticonic Michel Foucault
No Panopticonic discussion can be had without the full disclosure of SuperGenius Michel Foucault influence on this site:
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Sarasota Works to Divert
Sarasota, Florida is actively working to only incarcerate the most heinous criminals:
Announcing Panopticonic, Carceral Nation and Memeingful
The Boles Blogs Network is delighted to announce the creation of three new blogs for your reading pleasure that focus on news, commentary and analysis of three important themes that run throughout this Urban Semiotic blog. The first — Panopticonic — concerns us watching those watching us. Jeremy Bentham invented the idea of a “panopticon” in 1787:
A circular prison with cells arranged around a central well, from which
inmates can be observed at all times. Also in extended use.
Today, Panopticonic helps us fight back against the decay of personal privacy under the eyeing thumb of those that surveil us on a daily basis.
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One in 99: Number One as the Prison Nation
The United States is now the number one nation of the incarcerated in the world. The Pew Center on the States released a new report that one in 99 Americans is a prisoner in the nation’s overcrowded jail and prison system.
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A Lesson for Scooter in Paris
Are we sick of Paris Hilton yet?
Will we ever be rid of her now or is she now an American meme a powerful as Plymouth Rock?
Have we tired of her Weeping Semiotic?
Urban Bioterrorism Attack: Pernicious Tuberculosis
How do you fight an invisible danger?
In our ongoing series of conversations about Urban Bioterrorism, — we have been struck by several recent realities that confirm our policy of policing the Homeland is wide open to creative and pernicious exploitation of our febrile border defenses.
Our current policy for fighting terrorism on American soil isn’t working. We seek to only deter and then punish the body.
We log citizens and their behaviors while completely ignoring the reality that the most dangerous threats to health, freedom and liberty are microscopic and undetectable — and those dangers live inside people instead of being carried by people as recognizable weapons of mass destruction.
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