#really just rambling im starting foucaults pendulum and it got me thinking

[spidxrguin]

random thought (meta?) but i think how miguel laid out the spider society is kind of dreadful in the original sense of the word. it’s literally bentham’s panopticon — where power is exercised by the idea that one is always being watched so thus the spiders self-regulate and accept a (possibly) subjective understanding of reality. i feel like this is really evident in the scene where they all kind of grimly accept the reality of canon events when explaining it to miles. i think this is doubly dreadful in gwen’s cases where she is aware she is an anomaly in the grand design of things. i think this comes up again too when miles 'flips the script' (the scene on the rocket) and very directly disrupts the narrative and highlights that the spider society's perceived objectives are actually potentially subjective, that are reinforced by a power imbalance. idk just random thoughts i've had. i think once you start playing around in the world of multiverses you're bound to run into some tougher ideas. description of the panopticon below