As a contribution to both rural theory and a geography of rural disability, this paper tackles the idea of the ‘rural panopticon’. Inspired by empirical research on mental ill-health in the Scottish Highlands, the authors specify certain workings of the rural panopticon, stressing interconnections between visibility, observation, surveillance, chatter and interiorised senses of self-disciplinin...

This paper explores the different yet complementary aspects of the panopticon and the panspectron using the case study of the Israeli controlled Palestinian territory, the Gaza Strip. Beginning with a brief theoretical discussion of the concept of panopticon and panspectron expanding on the existing literature, the paper moves on to discuss the implementation of panoptical and panspectral techn...

For datacenter applications that require tight synchronization, transactions are commonly employed for achieving concurrency while preserving correctness. Unfortunately, distributed transactions are hard to scale due to the decentralized lock acquisition and coordination protocols they employ. In this paper, we show that it is possible to achieve scalability for distributed transactions by usin...

The concept of power has been debated among philosophers for as long as humans have been able to record. What makes someone or something powerful, and what exactly does that mean to us as individuals? Michel Foucault provides a glimpse at one aspect of power in his article, Panopticism. Here, he provides a definition for the " Panopticon: " an all-seeing individual or institution, which may or ...