panopticon

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A kind of projector in the 18th and 19th centuries.
2. isim A type of prison where all the cells are visible from the center, particularly if it is not possible for those in a cell to know if they are being watched.

   “He was alive to every creak and dunt, the thinness of the walls, as if the tenement block was a kind of aural panopticon that funnelled every sound to the other residents, let everyone eavesdrop on their business.”

3. isim A place in which people are subject to constant surveillance at totalitarian command.

   “Perhaps the construction of such a genetic panopticon is wise. But I doubt that the proud men who wrote the charter of our liberties would have been so eager to open their mouths for royal inspection.”

4. isim A room for the exhibition of novelties.