The references to Foucault pendulum (in the lamp post station) and Jeremy Bentham lead me to this:
Panopticon it's a type of prison designed by Bentham, you should read the wikipedia article this is really interesting, Presidio modelo a prison in Cuba for example is a panopticon prison and i always thought lost was refering a lot to the island of Cuba and Guantanamo and the isla de la juventud but that's not my point here. I think maybe the dharma stations are organized the same way panopticon prison are, remember the pearl station where you could see all the other stations....it makes me think of that.
Here's the wikipedia link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon

Now we are on to something.

Thanks!;)

Wow, this is interesting. Since Jeremy Bentham is a false name Widmore gave him, would have something to do with Widmore? *confused myself*