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Panopticon (disambiguation)

The Panopticon is a prison design by Jeremy Bentham (1786).

Panopticon may also refer to:

Buildings

  • Britannia Panopticon or The Panopticon, names for the Britannia Music Hall, Glasgow, Scotland
  • Panopticons, an arts and regeneration project to construct landmarks in East Lancashire, England

Music

  • Panopticon (band), an American black metal/bluegrass project created by Austin Lunn
  • Panopticon (album), by Isis, 2004
  • "Panopticon" (song), by Smashing Pumpkins, 2012

Other uses

  • The Panopticon (book), a book by Jenni Fagan
  • Panopticon Software, a data visualization software company
  • Panopticon, a book for the Eclipse Phase role playing game
  • The Panopticon Chamber, a location on the planet Gallifrey in the science fiction series Doctor Who

See also

  • Panoptes, a Greek mythological name
  • Panoptic (film), documentary film, see Cinema of Lebanon
  • Panopticism, a social theory developed by Michel Foucault
  • Banopticon
  • Opticon (disambiguation)
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