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Panopticon

The panopticon is a design of institutional building with an inbuilt system of control, originated by the English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century. The concept is to allow all prisoners of an institution to be observed by a single prison officer, without the inmates knowing whether or not they are being watched.

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Prison design

Architecture of other institutions

Applied to social surveillance

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Panopticon

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Panopticon

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related to Architecture of other institutions · 25
Panopticon → Arc-et-Senans, Before, Belper, Bentham, British Admiralty, Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, Ecole Militaire, French, However, In, In Bentham's, It, Jeremy Bentham, Jeremy Bentham's, Kent, London, Pauper, Royal Saltworks, Russia, Samuel Bentham
related to history · 22
Panopticon → Back, Belarus, Bentham, Bentham's, England, English, Greek, In, Jeremy Bentham, Krichev, Mogilev Governorate, Plan, Prince Potemkin, Prior, Reveley, Russian Empire, Samuel, Section, The, This
related to Applied to social surveillance · 21
Panopticon → According, American, Bentham, Bentham's, David John Manning, Discipline, Fabian, Foucault, French, Gertrude Himmelfarb, He, In, Jacques-Alain Miller, Jeremy Bentham, Michel Foucault, Punish, Recent, She, Shirley Robin Letwin, The Haunted House
related to Employment and management · 21
Panopticon → Age, Anthony Giddens, As, Because, Fordism, Foucault's, In, In Entrapped, Peter Bain, Phil Taylor, Power, She, Shoshana Zuboff, Smart Machine, Taylorism, The, The Future, The Hawthorne Plant, Work, Worker
related to Film and television · 15
Panopticon → America, American, Bentham's, Call Northside, Chicago, Foucault's, Harold Finch, In, Interest, Person, Roundhouse, Stateville Penitentiary, The, TV, United States
related to Social media · 15
Panopticon → Because, Christian Fuchs, David Lyon, Facebook, Fuchs, Gandy Jr, He, However, In, Mark Poster, Oscar, Roger Clarke, The, Therefore, Web
related to Surveillance technology · 15
Panopticon → AI, Bentham's, British, CCTV, In, Jeremy Bentham, Jeremy Bentham's, Jon Bannister, Mahmood, Mike Davis, Nicholas Fyfe, Particular, She, The, UK Home Secretary Shabana
related to Literature · 12
Panopticon → Chronicle, Death Foretold, Gabriel García Márquez, In, My, Riohacha, Russian, Santiago Nasar, The, We, Yevgeny Zamyatin, Zamyatin
related to Prison design · 12
Panopticon → Annotated, Cuba, Eastern State Penitentiary, Inside, Jeremy Bentham, John Frederick Adolphus McNair, Millbank Prison, Outram, Presidio Modelo, Presidio ModeloThe, Singapore, The Inspection House The
related to In popular culture · 5
Panopticon → Bentham's, Europe, Foucault's, This, TV

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Panopticonis adesign of institutional building with an inbuilt system of control0.90text
Panopticonis aprominent location present at the center of the Cryo Archive map.A named location in the 2004 video game Grand Theft Auto0.90text
Marc Schuilenburg argue that a different self-consciousness arises among humans who live in an urban area.In 1984instance ofacademics0.80text
Michael Radford gained international attention for the cinematographic panopticon he had staged in the film Nineteen Eighty-Fourinstance ofacademics0.80text
broadcast television gave many people the ability to view the few from their own homesinstance ofHe argued that mass media0.80text
gaze upon the lives of reportersinstance ofHe argued that mass media0.80text
celebritiesinstance ofHe argued that mass media0.80text
superpanopticoninstance ofsince then academic researchers have used expressions0.80text
Panopticonrelated to Applied to social surveillanceIn0.60section
Panopticonrelated to Applied to social surveillanceShirley Robin Letwin0.60section
Panopticonrelated to Applied to social surveillanceFabian0.60section
Panopticonrelated to Applied to social surveillanceShe0.60section

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