Panopticon Combat / defence skills & manuals including measuring words and telling

including measuring words and telling the time

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Panopticon Combat / defence skills & manuals including measuring words and tellingA collection of daring short essays on topical themes, including politics, economics, religion, society. Hans Magnus Enzensberger takes the title for this collection not from Jeremy Benthams famous prison but from a mid 1930s Cabinet of Curiosities opened in Germany by Karl Valentin. There, writes Enzensberger, viewers could admire, along with implements of torture, all manner of abnormalities and sensational inventions. And thats what he offers here: