NOUN
- an area where everything is visible
- a circular prison with cells distributed around a central surveillance station; proposed by Jeremy Bentham in 1791
How To Use panopticon In A Sentence
- Modern prisons are modelled after John Stuart Mill's panopticon, and sentries can indeed see everything.
- This carceral city seems, superficially, reminiscent of the Utopia of unbroken visibility and unrelenting surveillance envisaged in Bentham's Panopticon.
- In this manner, the Panopticon reinforces its role as arbiter of public taste.
- They want to have their voices heard, the full panopticon of civil society. Times, Sunday Times
- This hub of creativity can become a malign panopticon, though. The Times Literary Supplement
- Initially, the panopticon was a model prison designed by the Utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham.
- I threw around words like "heterotopia," "panopticon" and "hegemony" with aplomb; I was about ten times smarter in that blog than I am here, where my voice tends to be a bit NOGOODFORME.COM
- One effect of the digital Panopticon is the loss of privacy and the threat of tyrannical social control; another effect is a rich body of data about online behavior.
- One effect of the digital Panopticon is the loss of privacy and the threat of tyrannical social control; another effect is a rich body of data about online behavior.
- This conjures up the ominous spectre of the internet transforming the 'analogue' school into a digital panopticon. Times, Sunday Times