Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Merry Christmas From Illinois' Stateville Penitentiary

I like the idea of Santa as Panopticon: Bummer kid, Ho, Ho, Ho
As noted in 2016's "'Can your city change your mind?' (Jeremy Bentham does a cameo)":
...The linked article used a photo of Illinois' Stateville Prison which reminded me of this from Alex Wellerstein, historian of science at the Stevens Institute of Technology.
http://alexwellerstein.com/collection/images/panopticon_santa.png
Also reprised in 
Saaay...Has Anyone Mentioned The Circular Resemblance Of Apple's Headquarters To A Panopticon? (The New Surveillance Capitalism)
So there's this $5 Billion building in California:

https://cdn2.macworld.co.uk/cmsdata/features/3489704/apple-campus.jpg