Media, Information and Technoculture 3214F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Jeremy Bentham, Postmodern Architecture

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 3214F/G
• Professor: Tim Blackmore

Document Summary

Hiding out staying low being you (1960s-present, post modernism: panoptic space, controlling the self, the truth, skins of life. Big factories are gone, computers take over and become a major part of our lives. People that know that they"re being watched, they change their behaviour. Jeremy bentham, prison design like guardians of the galaxy, tower in the center watching over the cells. Guards had shotguns and used them in order to show power and keep prisoners calm. Page 64, a crime is averted, security. Mediated by screens, replaced life with images, spend more time looking through the. The viewer sounds like the world wide web viewer. Only private place is your mind: the panopticon means we police ourselves because we think we are being watched.