Michel Foucault
Biopower / the Panopticon (b)
Docile Bodies internalize the unseen gaze; sovereign power → biopower. Lens on the centralized power structure + two-tier surveillance.
Also in The Apex in Literature & Philosophy
Isaac AsimovPsychohistory / Foundation — the recursion (b)C.S. LewisThe Conditioners / Abolition of Man (b)J.R.R. TolkienThe Machine / the One Ring (b)Frank HerbertThe Butlerian Jihad (b)Philip K. DickThe Black Iron Prison / VALIS (b+a)Rudolf SteinerAhriman / the machine-swarm (a)Martin HeideggerGestell / standing-reserve (b)Friedrich NietzscheThe Last Man (b)