The Panopticon design involved a central watch tower, from which a single prison officer could observe the goings-on in the ...

Sony Computer Entertainment recently filed trademarks for something called “Panopticon” and a strange, red-and-gray symbol in Europe. The symbol’s services list suggests it could be used for ...

Not quite a household word (beyond academia, anyway), “panopticon” nonetheless turns up in news stories with surprising frequency—here and here, for example, and here and here.The Greek roots in its ...

Conspiracy theories thrive on cryptic symbols and covert visual signs. The ‘Eye of Providence’ – an eye set within a triangle – is one such symbol, associated with Freemasonry but also ...

Arnhem's panopticon is currently undergoing reconstruction to turn it into an event space and hotel, and Breda's domed prison is set to reopen in 2028 as an exhibition space for audio-visual projects.

I f you were tasked with building a panopticon, your design might look a lot like the information stores of the U.S. federal government—a collection of large, complex agencies, each making use ...

George Sikharulidze's 'Panopticon' excavates the religiosity and right-wing ideology that make one Georgian teen's coming of age so conflicted.

George Sikharulidze’s feature debut “Panopticon” is, the director says, a very personal movie. The film, screening as a world premiere in Karlovy Vary Film Festival’s main competition, is ...

An expression of power and a symbol of surveillance, the panopticon is a notorious architectural concept intended as a disciplinary mechanism. Photographer Romain Veillon shares his images of the ...

Conspiracy theories thrive on cryptic symbols and covert visual signs. The ‘Eye of Providence’ – an eye set within a triangle – is one such symbol, associated with Freemasonry but also ...

The Panopticon as a symbol of the oppressive state was realised during the Emergency, when prominent Jan Sangh leaders like AB Vajpayee and LK Advani were put away in the Banglore Jail for months ...