Abstract

RAMOS, Hugo Filipe. The New Russian Panopticon: Surveillance in Russia from the XVIII Century to the Digital Era. OBS* [online]. 2014, vol.8, n.3, pp.131-147. ISSN 1646-5954.

This article argues about the birth of the Panopticon in absolutist Russia of the XVIII century, approaching its historical, architectural, theoretical and social course, ending with the analysis of the Digital Panopticon concept, nowadays, in the Russian Federation of the XXI century. Among other topics, the following will be discussed: the birth of the concept and the architectural design of the Panopticon in Russia (in a region which now belongs to the Republic of Belarus) through Jeremy and Samuel Bentham’s hands and thought, relating this birth to the constraints and the role of power in social control played by the Orthodox Church, the Panopticon in the genesis of modern thought on surveillance and the Theory of Power by Foucault, which relates the concept of the Panopticon with the power/knowledge duality and the analysis of the evolution and use of the Panopticon in Russia’s Digital Age muscled democracy.

Keywords : Russia; Panopticon; absolutism; power; ICT; surveillance.

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