Foucault took the panopticon as emblematic of the ways that surveillance becomes an exercise of power, even going so far as to constitute the people being observed. When you don’t know when you’re ...

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 ...

Broached as early as 1791, the Panopticon theory holds that people can be controlled when they believe themselves to be under constant surveillance even if no one is watching.

In the panopticon, each prisoner is simultaneously a victim and enforcer of their own subjugation. While Dartmouth’s campus hardly functions as a prison, it induces a state of constant visibility ...

In theory, this material, whether usable together or not, could be recombined with other identifying information from private companies for all kinds of purposes.

A "panopticon" is an alternative to the traditional prison dreamed up by Jeremy Bentham in the late 18th century. ... (and Bentham actually applied the theory to schools and other environments.) ...

The panopticon, first envisioned by British philosopher and social reformer Jeremy Bentham in the 1700s, is a circular ...

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 ...

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.