“Bentham’s Panopticon is the architectural figure of this composition. We know the principle on which it was based: at the periphery, an annular building; at the centre, a tower; this tower is pierced with wide windows that open onto the inner side of the ring; the peripheric building is divided into cells, each of which extends the whole width of the building; they have two windows, one on the inside, corresponding to the windows of the tower; the other, on the outside, allows the light to cross the cell from one end to the other. All that is needed, then,…
Month: December 2015
self-fulfilling vocabulary
catoptromancy, noun.Divination by means of a mirror. gemination, noun.A doubling, duplication, repetition. In rhetoric, the immediate repetition of a word or phrase, or the using of a pair of synonymous expressions, for the purpose of rhetorical effect.