In the essay “Panopticism,” Michel Foucault analyzes a model of a prison, developed by Jeremy Bentham, to explore questions of surveillance, visibility, discipline, and self-discipline. In the essay “How Censorship Works,” the Chinese artist A Weiwei writes about censorship and self-censorship in China. Write an essay in which you analyze the similarities between Panopticism and the situation in China that Weiwei describes. What insight can we come to by thinking about these texts together?
