panopticon in English

noun
1
a circular prison with cells arranged around a central well, from which prisoners could at all times be observed.
Initially, the panopticon was a model prison designed by the Utilitarian philosopher Jeremy Bentham.

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Below are sample sentences containing the word "panopticon" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "panopticon", or refer to the context using the word "panopticon" in the English Dictionary.

1. Unfinished mix of one track of a never-completed five track Agnosis album featuring Austin Lunn of PANOPTICON on drums

2. Unfinished mix of one track of a never-completed five track Agnosis album featuring Austin Lunn of PANOPTICON on drums

3. 18 I wish I had a cosmic panopticon and could see into every Paris cellar and every attic in the banlieue.

4. 'A major contribution to our understanding of the historical origins of 'Benthamism' presents a bold challenge to the conventional wisdom that the Panopticon was an enormous failure, emphasizing the centrality of Bentham's efforts to give concrete form to the principles of his utilitarianism in the Panopticon, and locates in this one of the important sources of modernity.'

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6. Her shots of dioramas, storage areas, and Anterooms, of conservation studios, vitrines, shelves, and index cards, of crates and plinths, tables and technical equipment create a panopticon of objects from the most diverse cultures; above all, though, they produce a new vantage point for how we view the other.