Discussion on El Panóptico Ciego (The Blind Panopticon)

In August of 2014 a film crew stumbled across a century-old bureaucratic archive of the main men’s prison in Quito, Ecuador. Roof-high stacks of paperwork crammed into a nineteenth-century vault. This decaying archive recorded the daily institutional life of Ecuador’s oldest penitentiary, Centro de Rehabiltacion de Varones, Numero Uno Quito (CRSVQ1); originally titled Penal Garcia Moreno after the President who oversaw its construction between 1869 and 1874.

• Jorge Nuñez
• Courtney McLellan
• El Panóptico Ciego
• Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program
• Science Technology and Public Policy
• Behind Walls, Beyond Discipline: Science, Technology, and the Carceral State