Romance has the reputation of being an opiate for the masses. This paper intends to analyze if it is indeed a fantasy imposed from above or if there is room for negotiation. The chosen space is vampire romance writer J. R. Ward's forum. Power will be discussed through the lens of Foucault's Panopticon and de Certeau's productive consumption, among others.
The „Panopticum” section contains columns and essays of Ewa Stawicka, a barrister, writer and poet. The first column involves the topic reflecting the title of this section, and also of the prison architecture in Poland, on the basis of “the cat’s tail” (Koci ogon) in Toruń, an example referring to Jeremy Bentham’s “Panopticon”.
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