The most famous element in Bentham’s theory of punishment, the Panopticon Prison, expresses his view of the two purposes of punishment, deterrence and special prevention. We investigate Bentham’s intuition in a public goods lab experiment by manipulating how much information on punishment experienced by others is available to would-be offenders. Compared with the tone that Jeremy Bentham set, o...

George Orwell's 'Big Brother' and Michel Foucault's 'panopticon' have dominated discussion of contemporary developments in surveillance. While such metaphors draw our attention to important attributes of surveillance, they also miss some recent dynamics in its operation. The work of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari is used to analyse the convergence of once discrete surveillance systems. The r...

Species-specific taboos are relevant to nature conservation, yet the relation of conservation with such social mechanisms and connected traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) is underexposed in both science practices. This paper researches Mahafaly Antandroy tribes South Southwest Madagascar critically endangered radiated tortoise (Astrochelys radiata). We develop idea that collection denotes a...

Geçmişten günümüze varlığını sürdüren ve çeşitli şekillerde meşruluğunu sağlama idealinde olan iktidar aygıtının, hegemonyasını sürdürebilmek amacıyla uyguladığı en önemli teknik, gözetimdir. Gözetim olgusu, zamanın şartlarına gelişen teknolojiye paralel olarak farklı biçimlerde uygulanmış toplum denetim altına alınmaya çalışılmıştır. Yeni iletişim teknolojilerinin gelişmesi de iktidarın gözeti...

Kerajaan Sunda merupakan negara yang bercorak kebudayaan Hindu-Buddha berdiri di Jawa bagian Barat dan berkuasa selama abad ke-8 hingga ke-16 M. tersebut oleh para peneliti sebelumnya diperkirakan membentang dari Banten daerah Banyumas modern pada masa kejayaannya (abad M). Sebagai suatu besar, kerajaan ini berpusat Kota Pakwan Pajajaran atau Bogor sekarang. Secara arkeologis, temuan-temuan ber...