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The Panopticon is a type of prison building designed by English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in 1785. The concept of the design is to allow an observer to observe (-opticon) all (pan-) prisoners without the prisoners being able to tell whether they are being watched, thereby conveying what one architect has called the "sentiment of an invisible omniscience."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
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September 16, 2009
Great in his near-future concept but very very awful writing with unfathomable words, which have to be figured out by the reader, from the very beginning of the book. A extensive footnotes section explaining technical words would be appreciated, I had to search in a book's fan website to learn what those words meant.
Naturally, technical-tighten writings are very difficult to translate correctly to other languages, so I'm planning to buy the english version (with footnotes if it's possible), since I think this version has some mistranslations clearly visible even without having read the english version (the term Silicon, for example, it's a badly translated term throughout all the book).
September 14, 2009
July 22, 2009
The first three quarters of the cassette had been erased; you punch yourself fast-forward through a static haze of wiped tape, where taste and scent blur into a single channel. The audio input is white sound — the no-sound of the first dark sea . . . (Prolonged input from wiped tape can induce hypnagogic hallucination.)
July 16, 2009