The Panopticist is at it…Again
Posted by Nessa | Posted in humor,news,sexy sites | Posted on August 27, 2007
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Just when I though he disappeared for good, our culturally observant (yet sexy) friend Andrew Hearst released some new Magazine covers that are almost as good as the infamous subliminal cocktail featured on Snopes a few years ago.
The last time I posted something on Andrew Hearst I had people asking me if I even knew what a Panopticist was. Ok, the answer is still no, seeing that I don’t even know how to pronounce the word (pan-nop-tih-cist??) but this page is supposed to explain it a little bit. Too bad I have the attention span of a flea, so yea. You can see his other fabtaculous magazine covers here and…um… what was I talking about again?
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well… a panopticon (never heard the term “panopticist”) is a sort of 18th Century orwellianism, a prision designed in such a way that the prisoners had no way of knowing if, at a certain moment, they were being watched or no, much like the orwellian telescreen. It became a symbol for a total surveillance society.
the term became famous because of Michel Foucault’s book “Discipline and Punish”.
except for philosophers and leftists, no one knows what it means, so, don’t feel too bad about it :)