panopticon
IPA: pˈænɑptˈɪkʌn
noun
- A type of prison where all the cells are visible from the center, particularly if it is not possible for those in a cell to know if they are being watched.
- (figurative, by extension) A place in which people are subject to constant surveillance at totalitarian command.
- A room for the exhibition of novelties.
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Examples of "panopticon" in Sentences
- The panopticon is a worthy point of discussion as it does stretch into all parts of our life
- Both groups are encouraging voters to use Twitter as a kind of panopticon of the polling process.
- A panopticon is a prison where everyone can see you; in the case of privacy it's a voluntary prison, one of choice.
- A panopticon is a prison where everyone can see you; in the case of privacy it’s a voluntary prison, one of choice.
- Participation in most parts of the panopticon is by choice; sometimes these choices are inconvenient, but they are different paths just the same.
- Here the executive mansion becomes a kind of panopticon, with each wing facing outward through a massive screen, like a TV set with just one channel.
- But if we accept the notion that the participatory panopticon is a likely consequence of otherwise desirable improvements to communication and information technologies, it becomes incumbent upon us to think of ways to use it as a tool for good.
- Italians are fighting back against the surveillance society with a grass roots project designed to publicise the location of CCTV cameras - and to "out" those that have been set up contrary to Italian Law., which was launched earlier this year, is a deliberate parody of the "panopticon" - an ideal prison first put forward by Jeremy Bentham in 1791.
- In all these ways an afternoon party such as this was something much more valuable than a vision of the past for it offered me something better than the successive pictures I had missed of the past separating itself from the present, namely, the relationship between the present and the past; it was like what used to be called a panopticon but a panopticon of years, a view not of a monument but of a person situated in the modifying perspective of
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