Ever since Michel Foucault reintroduced Jeremy Bentham’s eighteenth-century panopticon into contemporary philosophical discussion in 1975, the project has served as the prototypical example of surveillance and social control in the modern world. The panopticon is both an architectural model—a circular prison engineered to create the semblance of constant prisoner surveillance—and an example of rationalist philosophy—Bentham rejoiced in the belief that prisoners under the potentially omnipotent surveillance of prison guards would learn to self-censor their behavior,...