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What is Jeremy Bentham’s auto-icon?

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Jeremy Bentham’s auto-icon, created in keeping with his will, consists of his skeleton and an attached wax replica of his head, dressed in his clothes and hat and seated in his chair and housed from 1850 in a glass case at University College London. His mummified head is now stored at UCL’s Institute of Archaeology.

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