Comments on: Orwell and The Panopticon in Zurich’s Train System http://luminousvoid.net/archives/114/orwell-and-the-panopticon-in-zurichs-train-system Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:42:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: gr http://luminousvoid.net/archives/114/orwell-and-the-panopticon-in-zurichs-train-system#comment-2685 Sat, 26 Aug 2006 15:42:46 +0000 http://luminousvoid.net/archives/114/orwell-and-the-panopticon-in-zurichs-train-system#comment-2685 Ah. The trip to Switzerland was vacation. Not fellowship. It was funded by the fact that I had friends to stay with while there. Ah. The trip to Switzerland was vacation. Not fellowship. It was funded by the fact that I had friends to stay with while there.

]]> by: the imbroglio » Blog Archive » Orwell and The Panopticon in Zurich’s Train System http://luminousvoid.net/archives/114/orwell-and-the-panopticon-in-zurichs-train-system#comment-2683 Sat, 26 Aug 2006 14:28:34 +0000 http://luminousvoid.net/archives/114/orwell-and-the-panopticon-in-zurichs-train-system#comment-2683 [...] “You’ll behave because you don’t know if you’re being watched.” ⇒ Tags: panopticon , public transportation , zurich [...] […] “You’ll behave because you don’t know if you’re being watched.” ⇒ Tags: panopticon , public transportation , zurich […]

]]> by: ambimb http://luminousvoid.net/archives/114/orwell-and-the-panopticon-in-zurichs-train-system#comment-2677 Sat, 26 Aug 2006 12:02:57 +0000 http://luminousvoid.net/archives/114/orwell-and-the-panopticon-in-zurichs-train-system#comment-2677 Switzerland!? I'm thinking that must be one hella cool fellowship you're on, my friend! You should be taking and posting more pics of trips like this so that those of us lowly stay-in-one-place people can live vicariously through you! As to the subject of your post: My girlfriend gets to go to Paris next week so we were watching a travel guide video and they showed one of the fare gates for the Paris metro. Thhose gates are like floor-to-ceiling -- no way to jump the gate and board the train. That sort of total control is kind of the opposite of this panopticon-like "self control" thing you're describing. I think I prefer the panopticon. Maybe I've just grown to love being governed by fear and paranoia more than brute force. Switzerland!? I’m thinking that must be one hella cool fellowship you’re on, my friend! You should be taking and posting more pics of trips like this so that those of us lowly stay-in-one-place people can live vicariously through you!

As to the subject of your post: My girlfriend gets to go to Paris next week so we were watching a travel guide video and they showed one of the fare gates for the Paris metro. Thhose gates are like floor-to-ceiling — no way to jump the gate and board the train. That sort of total control is kind of the opposite of this panopticon-like “self control” thing you’re describing. I think I prefer the panopticon. Maybe I’ve just grown to love being governed by fear and paranoia more than brute force.

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