The jeremy bentham otto icon is one of those objects with more than one history. It has a factual chronology and a mythical one as well. Probably the most well known myth about the outo icon is that students kick the real head. And you see, l's quad is a footballif you'v seen the real head, you would know that even the smallest impact on it would disintegrate. When bentham died, auto ic oning wasn't exactly a thing. In fact, donating your body to science wasn't even really a thing.
Our new miniseries on Surveillance begins with your host tripping over the corpse of Jeremy Bentham, the man who gave us the Panopticon.