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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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The extracted context around Panopticon shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Panopticon → Arc-et-Senans, Belper, Bentham, British Admiralty, Claude-Nicolas Ledoux, Ecole Militaire, French, In Bentham's, Jeremy Bentham, Jeremy Bentham's, Kent, London, Pauper, Royal Saltworks, Russia, Samuel Bentham, Samuel Bentham's, St Petersburg, The Inspection House, William Strutt Another extracted example is Panopticon → According, American, Bentham, Bentham's, David John Manning, Discipline, Fabian, Foucault, French, Gertrude Himmelfarb, Jacques-Alain Miller, Jeremy Bentham, Michel Foucault, Punish, Recent, Shirley Robin Letwin, The Haunted House, The Mind. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
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TTTA extracted 137 structured relationships around Panopticon. Examples in this analysis include Panopticon → is a → design of institutional building with an inbuilt system of control and Panopticon → is a → prominent location present at the center of the Cryo Archive map.A named location in the 2004 video game Grand Theft Auto. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Panopticon | is a | design of institutional building with an inbuilt system of control | 0.90 | text |
| Panopticon | is a | prominent location present at the center of the Cryo Archive map.A named location in the 2004 video game Grand Theft Auto | 0.90 | text |
| Marc Schuilenburg argue that a different self-consciousness arises among humans who live in an urban area.In 1984 | instance of | academics | 0.80 | text |
| Michael Radford gained international attention for the cinematographic panopticon he had staged in the film Nineteen Eighty-Four | instance of | academics | 0.80 | text |
| broadcast television gave many people the ability to view the few from their own homes | instance of | He argued that mass media | 0.80 | text |
| gaze upon the lives of reporters | instance of | He argued that mass media | 0.80 | text |
| celebrities | instance of | He argued that mass media | 0.80 | text |
| superpanopticon | instance of | since then academic researchers have used expressions | 0.80 | text |
| Panopticon | related to Applied to social surveillance | Shirley Robin Letwin | 0.60 | section |
| Panopticon | related to Applied to social surveillance | Fabian | 0.60 | section |
| Panopticon | related to Applied to social surveillance | Bentham's | 0.60 | section |
| Panopticon | related to Applied to social surveillance | Bentham | 0.60 | section |
The concept neighborhoods around Panopticon bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Prison, Bentham and Bentham's. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
For Panopticon, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Panopticon with Applied to social surveillance. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
TTTA analyzes the structure around Panopticon to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Culture, Technology & Measurement, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
Source: Wikipedia — Panopticon · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout