The final episode of "the Foucault trilogy". Ways of evaluating humans that became common during the ~1750-1850 period. Bentham's Panopticon as a metaphor. Self-improvement via exhibitionism. Final reflections on Foucault.

Sources

• Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish: the Birth of the Prison, 1975.
• C.G. Prado, Starting With Foucault (2/e), 2000.
• Ian Hacking, The Social Construction of What?, 1999.

Other sources

• Mississippi State University Extension, "Dairy Cattle Judging".
• Jeremy Bentham: The Panopticon Writings (PDF), Miran Božović (ed.), 1995.
• The Koepelgevangenis panopticon is described in "The Panopticon Effect" podcast episode. (There is no transcript, but there is a longish narrative.)
• Ron Jeffries, "Big Visible Charts", 2004.
• "Brainless slime mold grows in pattern like Tokyo’s subway system", 2022 (video).

Contact links (if you want the bonus episode on "Edgelord Foucault")

• Email: [email protected]
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Picture credit
BigVisibleCharts.com (archived), Marty Andrews.