Argus
Monday, August 23, 2021
Under a regime that declares a constant state of war, citizens are placed within a prison-like Jeremy Bentham’s ideal construction, the panopticon: on its high tower are the eyes of Argus Panoptes.
I am the eye in the sky
Looking at you
I can read your mind
I am the maker of rules
THERE’s nothing arrogant in the song by The Alan Parsons Project; the words are uttered sadly. But to be “the eye in the sky”—constantly looking at us and reading our mind—is to be a frightening force. In various cruel stories, human political history records the combination of the words “to see—to know—to contro
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