a circular prison with cells distributed around a central surveillance station; proposed by Jeremy Bentham in 1791
an area where everything is visible
The Panopticon is a type of institutional building designed by English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the late 18th century. The concept of the design is to allow a watchman to observe (-opticon) all (pan-) inmates of an institution without them being able to tell whether or not they are being watched.
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