Season 248 - Day 12 of 14
Political Science
Originally designed in the late 18th century by the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham, which institutional architecture features a central observation tower surrounded by a circular building of individual cells?
The design mathematically ensures that inmates can never know exactly when they are being watched, forcing them to self-regulate their behavior and creating a concept later used by Michel Foucault as a metaphor for modern surveillance societies.
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