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Panopticon   Listen
noun
Panopticon  n.  
1.
A prison so contructed that the inspector can see each of the prisoners at all times, without being seen.
2.
A room for the exhibition of novelties.





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"Panopticon" Quotes from Famous Books



... of the spectroscope, the aplanatic foci are arranged in fluorescent nodules each equidistant from the metacentre. With a frankness that cannot be too highly commended, Professor Prawling admits that this instrument is founded on BENTHAM'S Panopticon. But the deviations from BENTHAM and the expansions of his machine are far more remarkable than the resemblances to it. Prawling—if he will allow us the familiarity—is not a utilitarian. His aim is to re-establish our textile pre-eminence by reconciling monistic individualism ...
— Punch or the London Charivari, October 20, 1920 • Various
... they conceal. This is the burden of Jeremy Bentham's quarrel with "question-begging appellatives." A clear-sighted and scrupulously veracious philosopher, abettor of the age of reason, apostle of utility, god- father of the panopticon, and donor to the English dictionary of such unimpassioned vocables as "codification" and "international," Bentham would have been glad to purify the language by purging it of those "affections of the soul" wherein Burke had found its highest ...
— Style • Walter Raleigh


Words linked to "Panopticon" :   prison house, saleroom, salesroom, prison, area, panoptical, showroom


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