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panopticon

/pan-op-ti-kon/US // pænˈɒp tɪˌkɒn //

泛监牢,泛光灯,泛滥成灾,泛滥

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a building, as a prison, hospital, library, or the like, so arranged that all parts of the interior are visible from a single point.

Examples

  • Privacy advocates had justified concerns about the Google-adjacent company’s ability to capture a near-total amount of data from the residents of the development or any city-dweller that wandered into its high-tech panopticon.

  • The Panopticon is usually considered an abstract idea, but in fact I lived in one.

  • He spent 16 years of his mostly 18th century life designing the Panopticon, which was to be the ideal disciplinary institution.

  • The Panopticon By Jenni Fagan A teenage heroine is sent to a reformatory in this dystopian novel.

  • How have we gotten so comfortable with the panopticon state in little more than a decade?

  • In his dissent, Scalia warns of such a “genetic panopticon.”

  • It had struck him that an application of his Panopticon would give the required panacea.

  • Had any other king been on the throne, Panopticon in both 'the prisoner branch and the pauper branch' would have been set at work.

  • The Panopticon, as defined by its inventor to Brissot, was a 'mill for grinding rogues honest, and idle men industrious.'

  • Meanwhile Bentham, meditating profoundly upon the Panopticon, had at last found out that he had begun at the wrong end.

  • During this period Bentham was also occupied with the Panopticon, and some writings refer to it.