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The Panopticon is a prison design by Jeremy Bentham (1786).
Panopticon may also refer to:
Buildings
edit- 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
edit- Panopticon (band), an American black metal/bluegrass project created by Austin Lunn
- Panopticon (album), by Isis, 2004
- "Panopticon" (song), by Smashing Pumpkins, 2012
- Panopticom, by Peter Gabriel, 2023
Other uses
edit- The Panopticon (novel), a novel 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
edit- Panoptes, a Greek mythological name
- Panopticism, a social theory developed by Michel Foucault
- Banopticon
- Opticon (disambiguation)