Panopticon (disambiguation)

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The Panopticon is a prison design by Jeremy Bentham (1786).

Panopticon may also refer to:

Buildings

• 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

• Panopticon (album), an album by post-metal band Isis
• "Panopticon", a single from The Smashing Pumpkins's album Oceania
• Panopticon (band), a solo project of Austin Lunn melding black metal with bluegrass

Other uses

• The Panopticon (book), a book by Jenni Fagan
• Panopticon Software, a data visualization software company
• Panopticon, a book for the Eclipse Phase role playing game
• The Panopticon Chamber, in the planet Gallifrey in the science fiction series Doctor Who

See also

• Panoptes, a Greek mythological name
• Panopticism, a social theory developed by Michel Foucault