Tag: GCHQ

“When I first read Foucault’s account of the panopticon. I thought it was brilliant but overheated. Now, it actually seems like somebody’s plan”

An absolute must read essay in the Guardian by the novelist John Lanchester who was given access to the GCHQ files by the Guardian: The totalitarian state in Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four would need no broader legal justification than that: it really does allow a government to do anything it likes. It was at this point […]

October 3, 2013

“When I first read Foucault’s account of the panopticon. I thought it was brilliant but overheated. Now, it actually seems like somebody’s plan”