Panopticon (disambiguation)
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The Panopticon is a circular prison envisioned and advocated by Jeremy Bentham. A handful of examples were built in Europe, and one in Cuba.
Panopticon may also be:
- In reference to the above, since Bentham is University College London's 'spiritual father', a new home for the university collections, including the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology.
- A fictional place in the television series Doctor Who (see Time Lords).
- A fictional place in Mirrodin.
- A fictional place in the video game Grand Theft Auto:San Andreas
- Panopticon (album), an album by Isis (band).
- A band Panopticon (band)
- A proper name given to a music-hall, hence loosely any music-hall.
- The prison level in Silent Hill 4