http://practicaluseful.com being the website of one Jamie A. Thom and probably neither practical nor useful Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:42:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://practicaluseful.com/?p=199 http://practicaluseful.com/?p=199#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:42:18 +0000 Jamie Thom http://practicaluseful.com/?p=199 http://practicaluseful.com/?feed=rss2&p=199 1 http://practicaluseful.com/?p=195 http://practicaluseful.com/?p=195#comments Fri, 01 Jan 2010 06:52:04 +0000 Jamie Thom http://practicaluseful.com/?p=195 http://practicaluseful.com/?feed=rss2&p=195 1 http://practicaluseful.com/?p=189 http://practicaluseful.com/?p=189#comments Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:34:00 +0000 Jamie Thom http://practicaluseful.com/?p=189 http://practicaluseful.com/?feed=rss2&p=189 3 http://practicaluseful.com/?p=186 http://practicaluseful.com/?p=186#comments Sat, 15 Aug 2009 04:58:22 +0000 Jamie Thom http://practicaluseful.com/?p=186 http://practicaluseful.com/?feed=rss2&p=186 2 http://practicaluseful.com/?p=180 http://practicaluseful.com/?p=180#comments Thu, 21 May 2009 07:57:17 +0000 Jamie Thom http://practicaluseful.com/?p=180 http://practicaluseful.com/?feed=rss2&p=180 0 http://practicaluseful.com/?p=175 http://practicaluseful.com/?p=175#comments Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:14:27 +0000 Jamie Thom http://practicaluseful.com/?p=175 http://practicaluseful.com/?feed=rss2&p=175 1 http://practicaluseful.com/?p=173 http://practicaluseful.com/?p=173#comments Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:08:58 +0000 Jamie Thom http://practicaluseful.com/?p=173 http://practicaluseful.com/?feed=rss2&p=173 0 http://practicaluseful.com/?p=165 http://practicaluseful.com/?p=165#comments Sun, 08 Feb 2009 20:33:39 +0000 Jamie Thom http://practicaluseful.com/?p=165 Panopticon. Originally a concept created by a philosopher, Jeremy Bentham, in 1785 the Panopticon is a prison where every corner of the designated space is covered by a camera so prisoners feel that they are being watched all of the time and thus are more likely to behave. In the UK the principal was used to build Milbank Prison on the bank of the Thames where now sits Tate Britain - a building whose function is to provide a space for us to look at reflections of ourselves, an art gallery. The pleasing synergy of the first UK panopticon becoming an artopticon merits further examination as we become more obsessed with the voyeuristic tendency to watch each other as a form of entertainment and march headlong into turning every inch of this benighted isle into a prison.]]> http://practicaluseful.com/?feed=rss2&p=165 1 http://practicaluseful.com/?p=161 http://practicaluseful.com/?p=161#comments Thu, 05 Feb 2009 08:28:35 +0000 Jamie Thom http://practicaluseful.com/?p=161 http://practicaluseful.com/?feed=rss2&p=161 1 http://practicaluseful.com/?p=133 http://practicaluseful.com/?p=133#comments Fri, 16 Jan 2009 21:43:43 +0000 Jamie Thom http://practicaluseful.com/?p=133 http://practicaluseful.com/?feed=rss2&p=133 3