panopticon

How To Use panopticon In A Sentence

• The panopticon, an 18 th-century prison design dominated by a central viewing tower, called for an elimination of privacy and constant surveillance of prisoners.
• Hailing the movement as fraught with important improvements, he produced his Panopticon, which he described as applicable to all houses of industry, and wherever inspection is constantly required. The History of Tasmania , Volume II
• The digital panopticon is founded not on compulsion but on the willing surrender of privacy. Times, Sunday Times
• Instead of the center being a site of viewing and a mastering gaze - as it would be in an actual panopticon - it was to be an open area that was seen from all the booths.
• 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.
• Capote looked beyond the panopticon of the criminal justice system. Times, Sunday Times
• Related to this notion of surveillance and carceral institutional space is Foucault's notion of the panopticon, a mechanism for establishing social power.
• Time, distance, and social isolation ensured that each patrolling constable carried a mobile Panopticon with him.
• The hub of the American penal system's largest open-air Panopticon is in the Indianapolis suburb of Anderson, population 57,496, at the call center of a company called BI Incorporated.
• We live in a datafied panopticon, or a 'mirrored glass pavilion'. The Times Literary Supplement