Editorial: Panopticon in Principle, Panopticon in Practice

摘要

Outside St Petersburg, Russia, an extraordinary structure was built 1806-08 to the design of Samuel Bentham, the younger brother of the philosopher, Jeremy Bentham. Samuel Bentham's School of Arts, otherwise known as the Okhta Naval Manufactory has strong intellectual links with some familiar British buildings of the second quarter of the nineteenth century; the latter — workhouses, prisons, and asylums — were mostly, but not quite exclusively, built of brick.