panopticon
(en)
a type of building designed by English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the late 18th century; allows all (pan-) inmates to be observed (-opticon) by a single watchman without the inmates being able to tell whether or not they are being watched
disciplinary society has its Panopticon, the extension of carceral logic from the penal system outward into all institutions of social conditioning
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