Panopticon (disambiguation)

Panopticon (disambiguation)

:"The term 'Panopticon' is derived from the Greek: 'pan' for all, 'optic' for sight, with the noun-ending: 'on'."

The Panopticon is a circular prison envisioned and advocated by Jeremy Bentham

Panopticon may also refer to:
* Panopticon (UCL building), a building named in reference to the above
* Panopticon (Internet culture), a term used to describe the universal availability of world imagery, collected via camera and video surveillance
* "Panopticon" (album), an album by the band Isis
* Panopticon Software, a provider of Visual business intelligence solutions
* Panopticon, a fictional place in the television series "Doctor Who"
* Panopticon, a fictional place in Mirrodin
* "Panopticon", a London music-hall
* An allegorical exploration in Michel Foucault's
* The Panopticon is a wilderness region within the videogame .
* The eidoloscope was originally called the "panoptikon"
* Copenhagen has a "Panoptikon Theater".

ee also

* Panopticons, an East Lancashire arts and regeneration project


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