Jeremy Bentham‘s nineteenth-century prison reforms provide Michel Foucault with a representative model for what happens to society in the nineteenth century.note Bentham argued in The “Panopticon” that the perfect prison would be structured in a such a way that cells would be open to a central tower. In the model, individuals in the cells do not interact with each other and are constantly confronted by the panoptic tower (pan=all; optic=seeing). They cannot, however, see when there is a person in the tower; they must believe that they could be watched at any moment: “the inmate must never know whether he is being looked at at any one moment; but he … Continue reading Jeremy Bentham, Michel Foucault