How to Use panopticon in a Sentence

panopticon

noun

• The result, if all goes well, may be the world’s first true panopticon.
  — The Economist, 11 June 2020
• Which, of course, is the intent behind the creation of this kind of panopticon.
  — Jennifer Wright, refinery29.com, 6 Sep. 2021
• The best way to prevent a financial panopticon is to not build it at all.
  — Alexander William Salter, WSJ, 5 Oct. 2021
• The open kitchen is also a sort of culinary panopticon.
  — Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2023
• There are only eight panopticons of this style known to exist in the world today, three of which can be found at Pentridge.
  — Camille Fine, USA TODAY, 2 May 2023
• In its worst sense, the home office can become a sort of panopticon with supervision enforced on all sides.
  — Jelena Radonjic, Forbes, 7 Dec. 2021
• If there is one constituency that will appreciate the introduction of a wealth tax, it is made up of fans of the panopticon state.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 3 Mar. 2021
• In that scene, Wharton’s New York is a panopticon no resident can escape.
  — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 27 Jan. 2022
• How strong might the normative effect be with the panopticon effect—the feeling someone just might be watching?
  — David Rock, Forbes, 6 May 2021
• This ability to be remotely present in these crises is also a product of the panopticon, the surveillance state.
  — David Wallace, The New Yorker, 23 Nov. 2020
• How does one acclimate a former barn cat to the ultimate panopticon?
  — Lauren Oster, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Feb. 2022
• The 18th-century English philosopher Jeremy Bentham came up with the idea of the panopticon, a prison designed to allow all the prisoners to be observed by one guard.
  — Rich Lowry, National Review, 8 Sep. 2021
• Forever 21–meets–Bentham’s panopticon compound in Spain — is best suited for the topic at hand.
  — Curbed, 21 July 2022
• Spaceship Neptune’s swanky, pressurized lounge is a panopticon of windows and includes a bar and bathroom.
  — Michael Verdon, Robb Report, 5 Sep. 2021
• The bubble courts are a sort of pandemic panopticon powered by Microsoft Teams.
  — Nicolás Rivero, Quartz, 14 Aug. 2020
• Very weird all around, but what IS a normal way to react to your body being turned into a panopticon run by your psychotic billionaire husband?
  — Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2021
• Big Tech has created a pervasive, inescapable panopticon beyond the wildest dreams of the East German secret police.
  — Ryan Cooper, The Week, 22 Jan. 2022
• The panopticon prison designed by Jeremy Bentham in the late 18th century has reached its ultimate expression in the world imagined by Adjei-Brenyah.
  — Ron Charles, Washington Post, 19 Apr. 2023
• Private, unregulated space has now been breached and is in the process of being transformed into a space of surveillance and control — a kind of digital panopticon.
  — Carina Chocano, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2020
• Classic views of surveillance envision a prison state – a Big Brother-esque panopticon where a guard in a tower can watch prisoners in cells but the prisoners in the cells cannot see into the tower.
  — Jenna Drenten, The Conversation, 27 Jan. 2022
• What the show does manage, perhaps surprisingly, is to serve as a pretty good P.S.A. for the toll that social media’s panopticon-like effects take on its participants.
  — The New Yorker, 10 Sep. 2021
• Faith in the monarchy has been the bedrock of modern Thai identity, backed by a panopticon of propaganda and criminal punishment for criticism.
  — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 17 Nov. 2020
• As a way to build tension in the unsettling panopticon vibe of the resort, Tranquillum, that tactic lends itself to jarring, intermittent impact.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 18 Aug. 2021
• More problematic, no one loves a panopticon, as seen in anti-proctoring petitions and protests.
  — Ryan Craig, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2023
• But the parental panopticon is not a mark of maturity and responsibility but rather of paranoia, distrust, and devolvement.
  — Cyd Harrell, Wired, 20 Dec. 2021
• These questions dogged David Foster Wallace, a veritable panopticon of self-awareness.
  — Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic, 9 July 2020
• Ethan Zuckerman, a professor of public policy, says the panopticon has failed—but filming violent officers still serves a purpose.
  — Eamon Barrett, Fortune, 9 June 2020
• Washington would, given a chance, subject Americans to a financial panopticon.
  — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 23 Oct. 2020
• Set within a London that might feel familiar to anyone who has spent time on social media, a place by turns communal, claustrophobic, creative, and cruel, the novel anticipated our like-laden panopticon.
  — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 8 Oct. 2021
• On one side were hackers who wanted to employ the internet as a tool for personal empowerment; on the other stood governments and corporations, who used it as a panopticon for personal-data collection.
  — Dale Beran, The Atlantic, 11 Aug. 2020

Last Updated: 11 Aug 2024