0 a prison with cells (= rooms) arranged in a circle, so that the people in them can be seen at all times from the centre --
Breda was the site of one of the first panopticon prison establishments.
He institutes a panopticon of citizen surveillance claiming that only an open society can be a just society.
This is in contrast to the panopticon prisons.
The panopticon gaze is the idea of a silent, unknown overseer in the society such as the government that subconsciously controlled all aspects of life.
The body appeared as object of military discipline and of the panopticon as a mechanism of the biopolitics of power.
The panopticon fell out of use, due to prison overcrowding, in the early 1900s.
Adjacent to the trig point is a large panopticon sculpture, one of over 70 in the forest.
Is the metaphor of a panopticon appropriate for voluntary surrender of privacy?
