tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7619987575059138067.post9191828504033757109..comments2008-10-07T00:07:57.167+02:00Comments on Tinet in Beelitz Heilstätten: Special report: Carabanchel prison, MadridTinethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11442329710467703684noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7619987575059138067.post-9055973746415976512008-08-21T14:43:00.000+02:002008-08-21T14:43:00.000+02:00Yeah, it was inspired by the Panopticon concept. W...Yeah, it was inspired by the Panopticon concept. <BR/>We didn't know the structure was like this, and we couldn't really see much of it from the outside where we entered, so it was really awe-inspiring and disturbing when we discovered it.Tinethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11442329710467703684noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7619987575059138067.post-34909982232435851882008-08-20T22:55:00.000+02:002008-08-20T22:55:00.000+02:00That dome is like Panoptikon. As Jeremy Bentham sa...That dome is like Panoptikon. As Jeremy Bentham said, "a new mode of obtaining power of mind over mind, in a quantity hitherto without example" - and he thought it was a great thing.<BR/><BR/>"Morals reformed — health preserved — industry invigorated — instruction diffused — public burthens lightened — Economy seated, as it were, upon a rock — the gordian knot of the poor-law not cut, but untied — all by a simple idea in Architecture!"<BR/><BR/>And then people say that Fascism was opposed to the Enlightenment...<BR/><BR/>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PanopticonAinur Elmgrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05503629261796601589noreply@blogger.com