have not yet achieved the status of docile body myself, but anyway. Let me bring in Bentham again. Jeremy was not only one of the great utilitarians about whom you will hear in a course on the great minds, he was also and architect and he had some drawings of a building called the Panopticon, which as he says, could function as a prison, but also could be made to function as a university or a school or a hospital, because it has this odd feature. It's a sort of circular building within which the administrators can see down through every cell, but all the people in the various cells of the institution can see is at most the person across from them and usually not that. It is not the building itself that I am so interested in, just like Foucault says I am not so interested in the building itself but the principle. The panoptic principle; what he calls panopticism. It is a hierarchical principle that allows the gaze to be directed unilaterally. I like to call it the CIA feeling, even though I think that the CIA is now largely obsolete; it's the CIA feeling, it's that they are looking at me, but how do I know when I am looking at them. That's panopticism and this is not just a feature of prisons; this is what Foucault points out. In fact it's very... its hilarious. Many of the same architects that built our prisons in North