Date: Wed, 16 Nov 1994 18:17:57 +0200 (EET) From: Tapio Onnela <taonnela-AT-utu.fi> To: foucault-AT-world.std.com Subject: Re: Glasgow, CNN, and the panopticon On Tue, 15 Nov 1994, Landis Duffett wrote: > about the surveillance cameras now in use in the commercial district of > Glasgow? The police sit in front of the TV screens and control the cameras I have been studing photography/power from foucauldian perspective and I found an article from "History of Photograhy" 1991/4 which said that already in 1824 there was a plan to construct similar surveillance system in Glasgow. Note that this was before photography was invented. The plans were to build up the system based on camera-obscura. As far as I know the plans were never fulfilled (until now) Tapio Onnela
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