Look up: panopticon

1. Panopticon
   Pa·nop'ti·con noun [ New Latin See Pan- , and Optic .] 1. A prison so contructed that the inspector can see each of the prisoners at all times, without being seen. 2. A room for the exhibition of novelties.
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2. panopticon
   noun a circular prison with cells distributed around a central surveillance station; proposed by Jeremy Bentham in 1791
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3. Panopticon
   • (n.) A prison so contructed that the inspector can see each of the prisoners at all times, without being seen. • (n.) A room for the exhibition of novelties.
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4. panopticon
   architectural form for a prison, the drawings for which were published by Jeremy Bentham in 1791. It consisted of a circular, glass-roofed, tanklike ... [2 related articles]
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5. Panopticon
   The `Panopticon` is a type of building designed by English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the late eighteenth century. The concept of the design is to allow an observer to observe (-opticon) all (pan-) inmates of an institution without them being able to tell whether...
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6. Panopticon
   (album) `Panopticon` is the third full-length album by Los Angeles, California based post-metal band Isis, released by Ipecac Recordings in 2004. The album`s title is derived from philosopher Jeremy Bentham`s panopticon prison ideal and philosopher/historian Michel Foucault`s later all...
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