Panopticon

Rarity: Uncommon

A topic a little better known than average, read and translated beyond its own country.

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At a glance

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Notion

Domain

Arts and letters

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What Wikipedia says

The panopticon is a design of institutional building with an inbuilt system of control, originated by the English philosopher and social theorist Jeremy Bentham in the 18th century.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Panopticon”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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