Episode 58: Halloween Spooktacular 2019, on Memnarch's Panopticon

By Goblin Lore Podcast

Thursday, October 31, 2019

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Hello, Podwalkers, and welcome to the Goblin Lore Podcast!

In our fifty-eighth episode, Joe and Alex discuss Memnarch's Panopticon from the Mirrodin stories, how that relates to the philosophical discipline and surveillance idea of the panopticon by Michel Foucault, and what that all has to do with those handy-dandy video doorbells we all seem to have on our houses now.

Because the creepiest thing to think about for Halloween isn't what you can see, but what can see you... 

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