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Prison design that allows surveillance of any inmate at any time
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panopticon
Word definitions for panopticon in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1768, a type of optical instrument or telescope, from Greek pan "all" (see pan- ) + optikon , neuter of optikos "of or for sight" (see optic ). Later the name of a type of prison designed by Bentham (1791) in which wardens had a constant view of all inmates, ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
" Panopticon " is the second single from The Smashing Pumpkins 's eighth album Oceania . It was originally released as a promotional single to radio airplay on September 15, 2012.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. an area where everything is visible a circular prison with cells distributed around a central surveillance station; proposed by Jeremy Bentham in 1791
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Panopticon \Pa*nop"ti*con\, n. [NL. See Pan- , and Optic .] A prison so contructed that the inspector can see each of the prisoners at all times, without being seen. A room for the exhibition of novelties.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A type of prison designed by philosopher Jeremy Bentham wherein all the cells are visible from the center of the building. It engenders the feeling that someone is watching you, even though you know the contrary. 2 A room for the exhibition of novelties. ...
Usage examples of panopticon.
Perhaps, just as Foucault recognized the panopticon as the diagram of modern power, the world market might serve adequately-even though it is not an architecture but really an anti-architecture-as the diagram of imperial power.
Control of laboring activity can potentially be individualized and continuous in the virtual panopticon of network production.
For example, the carceral architecture of the panopticon, which makes inmates constantly visible to a central point of power, is the diagram or virtual design that is actualized in the various disciplinary dispositifs.
And have they a highly popular panopticon there containing nothing but trees to which small plaques are fastened bearing the names of the most famous heroes, criminals, and lovers?
Catherine the Great, Crosses takes its name from the red-brick Byzantine cross that adorns the front of the panopticon shape.
But Manni looks the way big-Manni remembers, captured by the unblinking Argus awareness of the panopticon dust floating in the air.
Why would I want to live in a panopticon society for ten or fifty megs?
The Panopticon was a design for a circular prison conceived by the eighteenth-century utilitarian Jeremy Bentham: the design consisted of tiered ranks of cells which could all be surveyed by a single warder positioned at the centre of the circle.
I hopped through the window and glided down across the panopticon, landing neatly in front of the King.