Meaning of panopticism | Babel Free

Definitions

The state or quality of being panoptic; all-seeingness.

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Examples

“I cannot help but follow such panopticism to its ultimate conclusion: a Nineteen Eighty-Four scenario.”

“The goal of police panopticism is to minimize the severe costs of managing the police by leveraging data-driven surveillance from multiple institutional points and actors.”

“Today's panopticism (in the West, at least) hasn't had anything like this effect, as Angwin notes, because it can be quite crude in displaying its own invasive footprints: You shop for cameras online, and then find yourself haunted for weeks by camera ads each time you visit a new website.”

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