Somewhere, at some exact moment in the past, some bored or outraged citizen became the first person ever to pull out a writing utensil and black out some teeth on a drawing or photograph or poster. Who was that person?
The name of this site is derived from panopticon, a word the British utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham used for the name of an ingenious new kind of prison he spent years devising in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
I’m Andrew Hearst. I’m the director of content strategy at Blue State Digital and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair. More info is on the About page.
Email: hearst@nyc.rr.com
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