English

Noun

panopticism ‎(uncountable)

1. The state or quality of being panoptic; all-seeingness.
   • 2008, Ilan Kapoor, The Postcolonial Politics of Development, Routledge (2008), ISBN 0415773970, page 69:

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

   • 2012, Mary D. Fan, "Panopticism for Police: Structural Reform Bargaining and Police Regulation by Data-Driven Surveillance", Washington Law Review, Volume 87, Issue 93, March 2012, page 102:

     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.

   • 2014, Clive Thompson, "Whose Life Is It Anyway?", BookForum, February/March 2014, page 12:

     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.