Reprinted from Michel Foucault, Power/Knowledge. Selected Interviews and Other Writings 1972-1977, Colin Gordon (ed.), The Harvester Press used by permission of Pantheon Books, a division of Random House Inc. The Eye of Power is a written account of a conversation between Michel Foucault, Jean-Pierre Barou and Michelle Perrot about Jeremy Bentham's Panopticon and the development of systems of power since the late eighteenth century when Benthan's work was published.