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This installment is called Burning Down the Panepicone.

Lately I've been thinking a lot about the corpse of Jeremy Bentham. Jeremy Bentham was a British philosopher born in the 18th century, died in the 19th.

He founded a school of thought we call utilitarianism. He advocated for things like the separation of church and state, individual legal rights, and freedom of expression.

He also famously advocated for a building his brother

Samuel designed, a building that was an actual surveillance machine, a building called the Panopticon.

Bentham's Panopticon has two parts.

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