smile, you’re in the panopticon

IT WAS THE MOST RUTHLESSLY EFFICIENT AND PSYCHOLOGICALLY DEVIOUS PRISON EVER BUILT. AND THE IDEAS BEHIND IT ARE STILL ALIVE AND WELL TODAY.

Writer Jock Serong

ARCHAEOLOGIST ADAM FORD HAS SPENT 11 YEARS IN VICTORIA’S PENTRIDGE PRISON. YOU’D GET LESS FOR ARMED ROBBERY. Since 2008, he’s been sifting through the massive construction site between the ominous bluestone walls, uncovering evidence of our penal past. Just shy of his 50th birthday, Ford is neither Indiana Jones nor Belloq: he’s bright and personable, politically engaged and talkative. He speaks with a strong British accent, but his working life has been global: he’s dug in the Caribbean and the Middle East, and excavated the site of the Kelly Gang siege at Glenrowan. He now runs his own consulting firm, DIG International, and has been tasked with preserving Pentridge Prison’s rich history as the site is redeveloped into an apartment block. (What else?) Ford has a gift for finding the humanity in history.…

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Smith Journal (Digital) - 1 Issue, Summer 2019

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